[–] BillMarshall ago
If AN ELECTRICIAN sold you a smoke detector with a built in camera that they could remotely access without telling you and never turned it on would they be arrested for a CRIME ? Of course.... (unless they were a black, gay, liberal, movie star.. than all bets are off)
[–] stonewallphysics ago
Companies so big they do not have to compete can treat their customers anyway they want. I've been buying tech parts for my company for over 20+ years and you do not leave a tech spec that big out of the specifications. This is clearly an attempt at covert surveillance by Google. Solution: Bust em up, bust them the fuck up. Bust Alphabet to into 20 companies and specifically Google into about 30. Outlaw all data collection and storage. Fucking period.
[–] Ghetto_Shitlord ago
Alphabet is a bunch of companies.
What legal basis would you separate Google?
[–] vastrightwing ago (edited ago)
We should require schematics for all electronic devices to be provided. True, not many would ever look at them. I would. Later, if it was discovered some circuits weren't documented, the manufacturer would have some 'splainin' to do.
(Ps) yes, I think the source code should be made available too.
[–] NosebergShekelman ago (edited ago)
This is so we can listen to you goys so that when you say something anti-semitic we know when and where to send the synagogue police to
[–] cantaloupe6 ago
Red herring - it's about taking your wealth and making you a serf. One's most valuable possession may be citizenship, with free speech corporations place corrupt officials and destroy borders.
[–] HenryCabotLodge ago
When you get caught say: 1) it was obvious, 2) it was written in the TOS and TOA.
[–] Hand-Banana ago
If you use gmail and ever order from any site, google will scan your mails and put the info into "purchase history". Supposedly something "only" you can see. It has price, item and your address. There was little fanfare about this "feature" and its not talked about except on one reddit post.
When it first rolled out last year, the reddit fags said you could delete emails and have items go away. This year it is no longer the case. So its 100% probable that gmail mines your user accounts, connections and personal information if you use it. Now if you use search logged in all this personal information is tied to it. Even if you don't they tie things to your IP address.
Case in point, I've stopped using google for 99% of things and yet it keeps changing my language to chinese. No matter what browser I use, everything is in moonspeak. My VPN is based in the US, all settings are for english. I put fake x-forwarded headers in some of my browsers to make it seem like I'm coming from a different place. Google seems to have accepted it as truth.
This nest microphone was 110% spying on you. I believe them when they said it wasn't supposed to be secret. None of this other stuff is either. They just don't talk about it. If you put it together, good luck on posting anywhere as google controls your visibility all over the web.
[–] generate [S] ago
so you think alternative products don't spy on you? What do you use for maps? smartphone?