My doorbell is a mechanical button that triggers an electric chime.
My husband gave me an Alexa for Christmas one year, but after having it play Christmas Carols on Christmas Day, i unplugged it.
But… I do carry a cell phone. If Google wants to bug me, it can.
You know, when Bush the younger became president, i observed that he cared a lot about his personal privacy and hoped that would improve privacy for the rest of us. I was disabused of that notion very quickly.
How do you propose we force transparency on the powerful?
This says gift article. I hope it works. Pretty long detailed article about people who have been surveilled and those cops miss using the surveillance apparatus. Pretty sure they were all cops but now I wonder who at Home Depot and Lowes and others have access and what they can access.
How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
