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RE: Are Your Gadgets Spying on You? Don't Bother the Curmudgeon

in #technology7 years ago

Case in point: Documents recently released by Wikileaks suggest the Central Intelligence Agency can use spying targets’ TVs against them, turning the sets into always-listening microphones. Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, also recently claimed that microwaves could also be used as spying devices, though she has since walked back those comments. Other “smart” devices, meanwhile, have been caught secretly tracking their users’ behavior and reporting that information back to the company that made them.