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Smart devices spy on you: How the Internet of Things can violate your privacy

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Don't mind if they want to see me naked or whatever i am doing without the clothes. Just that don't be obsessed spying, you're just wasting your time.

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Most of these bluetooth devices that are cheap coming from China require for you to connect to their app or server behind China's "Great Wall." That means all of your video, audio, personnel info and GPS data is sent to the CCP first then to your screen. The other way is Chinese apps use your cellular service to send cellphone data without your knowing (It connects to the servers on its own).

That means TikiTok, Zoom, those mini security cameras that you can view on your phone app, and DRONES (DJI)! It all goes to China. The US government stopped allowing DJI drones to be purchased and used at US facilities or for government business because they discovered it will be sent to the CCP via updates or the use of their bluetooth/ Wi-Fi.

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Be less paranoid and stop over-valuing your personal data. It's a big planet, and unless you are rich and powerful, the powers that be (and that spy on folk) really don't care where you are, what you are doing or what your opinions are. That includes China.

Much data has no value and will never be examined by human beings or tech.

Actual spying is directed and very limited (as are malware attacks). There is no reason to target random people and no point in doing so. However much you distrust our corrupt and nefarious governments, they have limited time and resources. They have better things to do than monitor the large amounts of data we produce each day.

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For the past several years, it has been an open secret that using internet is allowing oneself to be completely exposed, thus, why the talk about privacy?

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The same app that lets you use the camera on your robot vacuum to find that missing sock under the couch can send images to anybody who is interested to look.

The Chinese quadcopters are a bigger danger than most imagine since they not only have cameras but also transmit GPS coordinates. Like all Chinese tech, as required by Chinese law, they allow the Chinese military and police access to their data stream. If one of these Chinese drones show GPS coordinates close to something the Chinese might find interesting, oh like an important military base, major infrastructure, etc, the Chinese can see whatever the drones camera saw. They are an ISR asset for the PLA.

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Is IoT still a thing? I assumed that at the consumer level, at least, it's been a flop. I mean, who wants to connect their reliable and beloved fridge to a.... modem. Ugh.

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Is IoT still a thing?

Have you not visited an electronics store in the past decade?!

I assumed that at the consumer level, at least, it's been a flop. I mean, who wants to connect their reliable and beloved fridge to a.... modem.

Modem? Do you think they're using LAN cables or something? They connect to wifi, the modem is behind that.

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Don't mind if they want to see me naked or whatever i am doing without the clothes. Just that don't be obsessed spying, you're just wasting your time.

If that is true why do you draw your curtains at night? And why don't you publish all your bank details online?

Be less paranoid and stop over-valuing your personal data.

Much data has no value and will never be examined by human beings or tech.

And yet burglars have already accessed smart devices to determine when a householder is away, and so determined the perfect time to break in. And blackmailers have accessed smart devices to listen into conversations, and to record videos and images.

You guys are very naive.

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