What if a non-US government orders it on a US citizen's phone ?
Then it's a state of war between good old US and that country. Only the mighty US can impose its will upon other countries and their citizens. Didn't you get the memo?
How does tracking make the passenger safer? If someone gets picked up by a rapist and gets raped and murdered, THEY'RE STILL RAPED AND DEAD.
Yeah, but the emergency services may arrive to the scene quicker and offer counsel to the perpetrator. I mean, he just raped and killed somebody, it's clear he needs therapy. Maybe he was abused during childhood, poor man.
either on the remote control or on your screen and speaking into the microphone on the remote control.
For now. Wait until the next update when the wording will be something like: Samsung will not collect your interactive voice commands unless clicking and holding the activation button either on the remote control or on your screen.
Of course, this will be only for your convenience and you can opt out of this after completing a short form on Sammy's website with a couple of mandatory items like name, given name, date of birth, marital status, name of partner, date of birth of the partner, number of childs and their name, phone number, e-mail, facebook and twitter handle, anual household income, personal interests and such.
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? The TV is not supposed to be a recording device.
Oh yes, it is. A 'smart TV' it's not a TV, it's a general computing device which can display various input feeds to a screen. The same thing with the current 'smartphones': general computing devices which can, among other things, make and receive voice calls.
Since you're monitoring already anyway who calls whom and at what time (oops, hope I didn't give away a military secret here...), let people record the time they were called and report this. If enough people complain about some nuisance, block them.
Unless said nuisance is, of course, a politician, a charitable organization, a debt collector, your friendly marketing company, your friendly advertiser and so on
We've tried that but the fuckers lobbied for loopholes and got them.
You're just adding more FUD. There's no proof that Windows sends info about visiting websites, persons e-mailed, listened songs or watched movies.
Have you ever bother to read Microsoft privacy statement? Especially regarding Cortana or input personalization? Let me give you some quotes:
"For example, to provide personalized speech recognition, we collect your voice input, as well your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of the people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames. This additional data enables us to better recognize people and events when you dictate messages or documents.
Additionally, your typed and handwritten words are collected to provide you a personalized user dictionary, help you type and write on your device with better character recognition, and provide you with text suggestions as you type or write. Typing data includes a sample of characters and words you type, which we scrub to remove IDs, IP addresses, and other potential identifiers. It also includes associated performance data, such as changes you manually make to text as well as words you've added to the dictionary."
Care to provide solid evidence that when you turn this off they stop collectiing AND transmitting them?
Gotcha! The telemetry means only basic things like how many times you have started specific UWP apps, visited a specific site, emailed a specific person, listened to a specific melody, watched a specific movie and so on. Hey, if you've got nothing to fear you've got nothing to hide, rigt?
I thought about it before buying it. In the end it's tied to a freaking debit card I don't care about. I need to buy something? I top up the card with the ammount needed and that's all. It may help, though, I'm living in Europe. Over here banks are more careful with their customers (or, at least, my bank is).
Funny you should say this. I've been using a Kindle (4, non-touch) for a quite a while now and calibre is doing a damn fine job of managing my e-book collection. Why would I let somebody else manage my device? If you don't know, Amazon can and will delete books from your device.
That's why you wait a couple of weeks, at least, before even thinking of upgrading. Let some 'oh, shiny' poor shmuck test it. And, please, what securiity updates for a freking e-reader? It's a device for reading documents, nothing more, nothing less. Do you apply security updates to a paper book? Yeah, yeah, I know, you can browse the web, read mail, install apps and so on. But why should you do it? You bought it for reading books, right, else you'd have bought a tablet.
But what is it of Googles any business what I block on my phone or what traffic shaping I do ? Sure the play store is theirs but then they can fuck off and let me remove all google related stuff from the phone with out having to root it.
Your phone, their OS. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Or grow some balls, root your phone and erase everything Google. Better yet, install a pure AOSP build with no gapps.
Unfortunately Google doesn't think ads are just like spam. You and me and any onther thinking being knows it's not true, but for Google and other big corporations it goes like this: ads = unsolicited marketing coming from paying individuals spam = unsolicited marketing coming from non paying individuals.
Think of all the ads running during the event and the huge amount big corporations won't make if people don't see the ads. This is a real threat agains democracy. Think of the children!
Innocent until proven guilty? How about being a 'person of interest'? You're not guilty, no siree, we'll just harass, search, detain and otherwise make your life miserable until we're convinced you've got nothing to hide. Yeap, innocent.
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What if a non-US government orders it on a US citizen's phone ?
Then it's a state of war between good old US and that country.
Only the mighty US can impose its will upon other countries and their citizens. Didn't you get the memo?
There's No Such Agency in the US, you know :P
And the answer will be ... 42!
How does tracking make the passenger safer? If someone gets picked up by a rapist and gets raped and murdered, THEY'RE STILL RAPED AND DEAD.
Yeah, but the emergency services may arrive to the scene quicker and offer counsel to the perpetrator. I mean, he just raped and killed somebody, it's clear he needs therapy. Maybe he was abused during childhood, poor man.
either on the remote control or on your screen and speaking into the microphone on the remote control.
For now. Wait until the next update when the wording will be something like:
Samsung will not collect your interactive voice commands unless clicking and holding the activation button either on the remote control or on your screen.
Of course, this will be only for your convenience and you can opt out of this after completing a short form on Sammy's website with a couple of mandatory items like name, given name, date of birth, marital status, name of partner, date of birth of the partner, number of childs and their name, phone number, e-mail, facebook and twitter handle, anual household income, personal interests and such.
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? The TV is not supposed to be a recording device.
Oh yes, it is.
A 'smart TV' it's not a TV, it's a general computing device which can display various input feeds to a screen.
The same thing with the current 'smartphones': general computing devices which can, among other things, make and receive voice calls.
Since you're monitoring already anyway who calls whom and at what time (oops, hope I didn't give away a military secret here...), let people record the time they were called and report this. If enough people complain about some nuisance, block them.
Unless said nuisance is, of course, a politician, a charitable organization, a debt collector, your friendly marketing company, your friendly advertiser and so on
We've tried that but the fuckers lobbied for loopholes and got them.
Update your failbook page? Tweet you're about to die? Upload your last selfie?
You're just adding more FUD. There's no proof that Windows sends info about visiting websites, persons e-mailed, listened songs or watched movies.
Have you ever bother to read Microsoft privacy statement? Especially regarding Cortana or input personalization?
Let me give you some quotes:
"For example, to provide personalized speech recognition, we collect your voice input, as well your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of the people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames. This additional data enables us to better recognize people and events when you dictate messages or documents.
Additionally, your typed and handwritten words are collected to provide you a personalized user dictionary, help you type and write on your device with better character recognition, and provide you with text suggestions as you type or write. Typing data includes a sample of characters and words you type, which we scrub to remove IDs, IP addresses, and other potential identifiers. It also includes associated performance data, such as changes you manually make to text as well as words you've added to the dictionary."
Care to provide solid evidence that when you turn this off they stop collectiing AND transmitting them?
Why the fuck does Win10 contact telemetry.appex.bing.net, ad.doubleclick.net, and watson.live.com whenever you open the fucking Notepad?
Because Cortana?
Cortana: It looks like you are trying to type some letters. Would you like help?
Gotcha!
The telemetry means only basic things like how many times you have started specific UWP apps, visited a specific site, emailed a specific person, listened to a specific melody, watched a specific movie and so on.
Hey, if you've got nothing to fear you've got nothing to hide, rigt?
I thought about it before buying it. In the end it's tied to a freaking debit card I don't care about. I need to buy something? I top up the card with the ammount needed and that's all.
It may help, though, I'm living in Europe. Over here banks are more careful with their customers (or, at least, my bank is).
Funny you should say this. I've been using a Kindle (4, non-touch) for a quite a while now and calibre is doing a damn fine job of managing my e-book collection. Why would I let somebody else manage my device? If you don't know, Amazon can and will delete books from your device.
That's why you wait a couple of weeks, at least, before even thinking of upgrading. Let some 'oh, shiny' poor shmuck test it.
And, please, what securiity updates for a freking e-reader? It's a device for reading documents, nothing more, nothing less. Do you apply security updates to a paper book?
Yeah, yeah, I know, you can browse the web, read mail, install apps and so on. But why should you do it? You bought it for reading books, right, else you'd have bought a tablet.
By not upgrading unless it adds something you need?
I'm a bilingual illiterate, moron. I can't read in 2 languages.
Humans also evolved way beyond lemmings. Anon was appealing to popularity.
No, they didn't. Peer pressure takes care of those who stand in the crowd.
But what is it of Googles any business what I block on my phone or what traffic shaping I do ? Sure the play store is theirs but then they can fuck off and let me remove all google related stuff from the phone with out having to root it.
Your phone, their OS. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Or grow some balls, root your phone and erase everything Google. Better yet, install a pure AOSP build with no gapps.
Unfortunately Google doesn't think ads are just like spam.
You and me and any onther thinking being knows it's not true, but for Google and other big corporations it goes like this:
ads = unsolicited marketing coming from paying individuals
spam = unsolicited marketing coming from non paying individuals.
Close laptop means close the lid, not power off, mind you.
Its called Chrome..
It's called Firefox ESR.
And what's the difference? Want to be successful in the US? Buy a couple of politicians.
Think of all the ads running during the event and the huge amount big corporations won't make if people don't see the ads.
This is a real threat agains democracy. Think of the children!
Innocent until proven guilty?
How about being a 'person of interest'? You're not guilty, no siree, we'll just harass, search, detain and otherwise make your life miserable until we're convinced you've got nothing to hide. Yeap, innocent.
Christianity: domination of the entire globe by word-of-mouth, example and metaphysical enlightenment, burning at the stake, killing of nonbelievers .
Judaism: domination of a 300 x 50 mile piece of desert by any means necessary
Islam: domination of the entire globe by any means necessary.