Smart devices like phones, tablets, and smart speakers continuously collect personal data, including voice recordings and location information. Recent changes in policies, such as Amazon's decision to automatically send Echo recordings to the cloud, emphasize the need to trust tech companies with sensitive data. While many people overlook data collection due to convenience, alarming examples reveal the potential risks, particularly for vulnerable groups. The article highlights the precarious balance between enjoying technological benefits and facing the threat of privacy invasion, illustrating how data misuse can unexpectedly endanger individuals.
All of those devices are collecting data about you and about the people and things you interact with and sending them over the internet.
Once information like this gets collected, there's no telling who's going to end up with it, or what such people might do with it.
Most of us are okay with this, most of the time. Partly because data is invisible, and we don't have to think about it too much.
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