On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:03:20AM -0300, Juan wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400 grarpamp wrote:

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera

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Amazon is pitching it as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your friends

I can't believe americans are so fuckingly stupid but then I think again, and it makes sense.

But wouldn't YOU keep a live action camera in your bedroom if it was free, too?

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when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question.

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:59:48 -0400 John Newman wrote:

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On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:03 AM, juan wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400 grarpamp wrote:

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera

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Amazon is pitching it as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your friends

I can't believe americans are so fuckingly stupid but then I think again, and it makes sense.

of course I agree, but it seems to me this type of "assistant" tech that listens to everything you say and watches everything you do is just going to keep getting more and more popular and pushed more and more by the insatiable corporate maw to fucking gorge on marketable data...

Before it gets to a point where it's hard (or impossible) to escape it would be nice if someone put some serious thought into integrating layers of PKI crypto into this stuff for privacy

I guess you're being sarcastic? =P by the way, vice.com is behind cloudflare and doesn't work at all without JS. I als wasted a few minutes trying a couple of free proxys and they give a blank page too. vice.com, very consistent privacy advocates.

(kinda like what they had on Mars in The Quantum Thief). Heh ;)

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when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question.

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:32:37 -0400 John Newman wrote:

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On Apr 29, 2017, at 5:24 PM, juan wrote:

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:59:48 -0400 John Newman wrote:

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On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:03 AM, juan wrote:

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400 grarpamp wrote:

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera

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Amazon is pitching it as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your friends

I can't believe americans are so fuckingly stupid but then I think again, and it makes sense.

of course I agree, but it seems to me this type of "assistant" tech that listens to everything you say and watches everything you do is just going to keep getting more and more popular and pushed more and more by the insatiable corporate maw to fucking gorge on marketable data...

Before it gets to a point where it's hard (or impossible) to escape it would be nice if someone put some serious thought into integrating layers of PKI crypto into this stuff for privacy

I guess you're being sarcastic? =P

Hopeful... sarcastic... not much difference, sadly!! ;)

Well, but the connection between amazonNSA is encrypted with the latest bullshit encryption, the purpose of that encryption being to only allow amazon-pentagon aka the US government to spy. THe problem here is the people who buy that sort of garbage. More specifically the problem is the software running in their fucking heads.

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:25:36 -0400 grarpamp wrote:

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More specifically the problem is the software running in their fucking heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BfqDUPL1I

yeah, that sketch is amazing. The whitest kids have lots of very good stuff.