Amazon have recently rolled out a few products and services that are questionable to say the least. The first of these is called the Amazon Key. Most of you will have heard of this one because of how outrageous it is - the idea behind this one is to let couriers unlock your door to deliver packages to your house. I shouldn't need to elaborate on how much easier this will make abducting children. It would also serve as the perfect guise to murder an opponent and take any incriminating evidence, potentially halting the next Seth Rich in his tracks. It sickens me that they would even propose such a twisted and invasive policy.
The next product is the Amazon Cloud Cam, which is described as "an intelligent security camera that works with Alexa." Some of the features are listed below:
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24/7 monitoring
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Notifications - Get notified when Cloud Cam sees activity and use the Cloud Cam App to check in anytime with live view.
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See clearly in the dark - Night vision lets you detect what’s happening around the clock.
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Cloud Cam’s intelligence lives in the cloud so it is always getting smarter with more advanced alerts, detection, and features.
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Amazon Key compatible version – With the Cloud Cam (Key Edition) and a compatible smart lock, eligible Prime members can watch their in-home package delivery live or later.
This is the most lazily hidden spyware I have ever seen. It is always getting smarter? Paired with Amazon Key? 24/7? When you consider Jeff Bezos' connection to the CIA (the owner of Amazon) in which the CIA payed $600 million to use the cloud-based surveillance, it becomes obvious what the goal of this technology is. This also ties in nicely with the next item.
I saved the worst until last. With the help of @carmencita, I discovered that Amazon have already gained the trust of the gullible as they brought out the Echo Look. The idea of the Echo Look is to keep it in your wardrobe or on a wall and use it to refine your outfit for the day. The problem with this is that it also is kept on 24/7, so it can watch you change clothes if someone were to be using it to spy on the consumer. Again, this is a cloud-based service, so it is the same technology that the CIA paid for. This is an outright destruction of privacy, and what would the CIA want to pay for that anyway? I would add that surveillance doesn't discriminate by age.
On a slightly unrelated note, I thought that I may as well include a direct link between Jeff Bezos and a known pedophile. Here is an article explaining that John Podesta has been hired by the Washington Post (which Bezos owns) as a columnist. I'm sure that is reliable news.
Here Bezos is mentioned in the Wikileaks emails 16 times.
It seems fairly clear to me that Amazon is using technology to spy on consumers and have made it conveniently far too easy to abduct children for it to be merely a coincidence. I would appreciate your 2 cents on the matter though - time to get digging.
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tholinz ago
Anyone who allows Alexa into their house deserves what they get. It's quite literally an open mic into your house. They tell you it only turns on when you talk to it, but that's not how it works; the operational features (such as voice recognition and the ability to answer you) are hosted on the Amazon servers. Thus, it has to always be listening/sweeping your house, and the servers have to be constantly analyzing everything you say.
The_Savant ago
You can't escape from being spied on like that, though. Vault 7 showed that they can use your Samsung Smart TV as a covert microphone as well - it could potentially be inescapable.
Herbvendor ago
Smart phones too, shit anything with Internet connection and a mic would do the job
fartyshorts ago
At least you can disable your laptop's mic and webcam on the hardware level. It's awkward when your girlfriend calls you and it takes you 15 minutes to answer, though...
3141592653 ago
I have the cams on all my devices covered