Gratuitous Cloud Shared Spycams with Mic's in Your Bedroom: Now A Reality

[John Newman]

> On Apr 27, 2017, at 2:03 AM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:37:40 -0400
> grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/amazon-echo-look-bedroom-camera
> 
>> 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 (kinda like what they had on Mars in The Quantum Thief). Heh ;)



> 
> 
>> 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.
>