Are we SURE we want to do this?

[MK20]

Is there some way to opt out of the arrogant statism that is consuming both sides?

Now the tech companies are proposing actively spying on you and reporting that data to the government. Trump likes the idea.

Trump admin hears plan to use data from Google and Apple to detect mental illness, prevent gun violence | Blaze Media

The Trump administration heard a proposal last week to create an agency that would use data from devices like the Apple Watch, Amazon Echo, or Google Home to identify signs of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior.

www.theblaze.com

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

If people quit buying that junk they will change the product. Problem is most are to stupid an will give you all kinds of excuses why they keep paying to be spied on while, spending their own money to pay for the service. Convenience is one of the weakness's that is killing this country. Most are in debt so deep because of that, it's not even laughable anymore.

 

[Tchitcherine]

Pretty sure they would never skew the mental illness detection search results for any political or financial gain. /

 

[SilentStalkr]

They already use this crap to spy on you.

 

[Country]

The Government is doing it already and have been for years they just want to make it legal now . What do you think those acres of NSA super computers are for , to work out the NSA payroll . Trump likes it because he has no choice because it's already a reality .
They make it legal for tech companies to report and in the fine print it will absolve the Government also .
Legislation by camouflage and stealth .

 

[Skunk]

A couple years back, Apple denied a court order to unlock a terrorist's phone citing "civil liberty" or something along those lines. And now they're ("tech companies") going to feed the govt whatever info they want???

 

[MK20]

It is because they have seen that the sleeping giant has awakened in the 2016 election and they now see that they have to play dirty to win.

 

[Skunk]

They're set for the disappointing realization that their voting base is the fucked up slice of the pie.

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

Even if you don't have one of those electronic whores, that you voluntarily bring in your house, if you have a smart phone, it's already listening to you.

 

[MK20]

Nope. Because in their worldview they are the just, moral, and correct ones. They will likely never see any different. And any algorithm that they build will have that worldview embedded in it.

 

[Mwalex]

Have you sent personal email since Clinton was elected? Then you have been spied on. Made a cell phone call since 9/11? You’ve been spied on. You dumb enough to buy one of these Cherry 2000 precursors then you have been spied on.

 

[Skunk]

Who's listening?

 

[Soulezoo]

If you are on this forum, posting or not, you have been spied on...

 

[DocHolliday01]

This was the plan all along.

 

[Nik H]

OMG

Is this really new?

It may be exploiting a new technology but I have news for you.

If they want to spy on your ass, they can and this technology makes little difference. They (the intel agencies) have had these capabilities for as long as I have been an engineer. It makes it a bit easier but not much else.

If you allow a copperhead to live in your house and get bit by a snake when you reach in the cabinet, no one's going to blame you if you assume it was the Copperhead