And in many others they’re small czars of their own kingdoms. However it’s always nice to refresh parliaments with new educated people, with new progressive political movements, shatter old alliances and practices.
Well, person didn’t have a dog and then they suddenly do, and that will be noted by the device. I don’t understand the downplaying here, even though it’s correct that these people not necessarily know what they’re doing. The device does collect information about you and does listen (all while costing thousands of dollars). And these spy features they announce are not a product for common users but for data companies.
I don't think I'm the one being overly credulous here.
None of the assertions you made are backed by this 'research' which as far as I can see only shows that the TV is capable of detecting dog barks and baby cries.
You're just presuming that because the TV is capable of sensing these things (which Samsung advertises - links at end) this data is being collected and sent to Samsung - and then sold on.
So, some questions:
Is information about every time your baby cries or dog barks even valuable enough that this is plausible?
Is there any evidence that this is actually being sent over a network - for purposes other than the features they advertise?
Is there evidence that these are even being monitored if the dog bark or baby cry feature is not turned on?
Shouldn't the burden of showing things like this be on the people making the sensational accusations?
I could come up with more, but I think that these are enough. I'd love (well, hate, because I don't want it to be true) to see some actual proof of any of this.
Well yes, but when was the last time any police force had the mental ingenuity of asking the Samsung corporation about details on on someone's living environment? And what level of accuracy would you trust that intel?
Yeah the police would never ask Amazon ring for mass video without a warrant either right? Oh wait they could and they did. And it was shut down after it was exposed.
And on flock cameras they still do.
It's like this, once you have the data they will come for it.
"They recently had a baby and now they suddenly don't" is probably a datapoint they sell to ambulance-chasing medical malpractice lawyers and PE-owned grief counseling clinics...
Social media enables unseen before levels of fear mongering, misinformation and astroturfing. There are so many “issues” that were created and inflated to rile up voters it’s insane.
The earned income/purchase paid tax only once, while the housing needs infrastructure to be maintained all the time. So some way to collect these (rising) fees is needed.
I’m not from the States, and I always wondered in discussions like this, why are the HOA fees so massive? What are they paying for? Like rough estimate these HOAs have multi million yearly budgets; is it just to care for common property? Private roads? Security and maintenance of gated community? Playgrounds? I don’t imagine HOA maintaining stuff like some hobby/club houses, regular events for kids/eldery?
HOAs are just a micro version of corrupt government, with all the same behaviors.
There is an astonishing amount of corruption in HOAa. They overpay for nearly all services they contract out, and just by coincidence those contracts go to companies owned by friends and families of the HOA board.
And that's the reasonably well-run HOAs. The truly corrupt ones just have board members that pocket the money directly by using the HOA fund as a personal checking account.
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