So how are they spying on us? Well it seems there are tiny cameras and microphones in new appliances. These so called smart appliances include washers, dryers and refrigerators.
CIA director David Petraeus has said that the rise of new “smart” gadgets means that Americans are effectively bugging their own homes, saving US spy agencies a job when it identifies any “persons of interest”.
Speaking at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s technology investment operation, Petraeus made the comments when discussing new technologies which aim to add processors and web connections to previously ‘dumb’ home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems.
- InfoWars.com
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We as American citizens are to be called suspects in any crime. Instead we are being called persons of interest if the government so chose to track our personal devices. Like on last night's "Harry's Law" my concern would be the invasion of our 4th amendment rights with the possibility of such warrant-less searches.
Does this sound a lot like the so called fictional TV show, "Person of Interest"? It does to me to, and it scares me.
Still think this might be conspiracy theory? Let's take a lookat what Wired reported on their blog.
Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”
All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.
- Wired
Still not convinced? Let's look at what was reported by the BBC.
Arm Holdings has unveiled what it describes as the "world's most energy-efficient microprocessor" design.Slate.com also reported on this very story:
The firm says that microcontrollers based on the "Flycatcher" architecture will pave the way for the "internet of things" - the spread of the net to a wider range of devices.
It suggests that fridges and other white goods, medical equipment, energy meters, and home and office lighting will all benefit from the innovation.
- British Broadcasting Corp
Watch out: the CIA may soon be spying on you—through your beloved, intelligent household appliances, according to Wired.
In early March, at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, CIA Director David Petraeus reportedly noted that “smart appliances” connected to the Internet could someday be used by the CIA to track individuals. If your grocery-list-generating refrigerator knows when you’re home, the CIA could, too, by using geo-location data from your wired appliances, according to SmartPlanet.
“The current ‘Internet of PCs’ will move, of course, toward an ‘Internet of Things’—of devices of all types—50 to 100 billion of which will be connected to the Internet by 2020,” Petraeus said in his speech. He continued:Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.
- Slate.com
Another media source reported:
While discussing an "Internet of things," Petraeus said household devices with online connectivity will change the notion of secrecy, indicating the rise of these devices will create a fresh wave of privacy concern.
Devices collecting data from a home can potentially watch anything inside it, gathering information that may be stored in the parent company's server. Such data may be subject to review by regulators, or probes by agencies like the CIA if the user is a person of interest, sparing law enforcement the step of bugging the home, Petraeus said.
"Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters -- all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing," Petraeus said, according to Wired. "The latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing."
Federal laws keep the CIA from spying on just anyone without a warrant or proper judicial procedure. But multiple cases of agencies tracking GPS data without a warrant nudge the boundaries of Fourth Amendment privacy protections, and laws that predate today's technology could be vaguely interpreted when applied to data residing in a cloud.
- MobileMedia.com
There lies the concern. As I mentioned earlier in this post and now in this latest quote. The fourth amendment protects us from illegal search and seizures. These kind of devices and spy tools open the door for the government to spy on us while we are in the shower, making out with our spouses and plain just spying on us without cause in our on private homes, hoping to catch us doing something they deem illegal. Is that the kind of society you want to live in? I know it's not the kind i want. I enjoy the freedoms that our Constitution affords us, but some of our leaders like CIA Chief Petraeus seems bent on ignoring the Constitution and taking our freedoms from us.
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My name is Kevin, and that's what I think. What do you think? Agree? Disagree?
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