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Re: Did any of your account has hacked by hackers?
from Seonag on 06/08/2015 03:02 PMNot for years, that I'm aware of. My yahoo account was hacked years ago. Changed the password, then closed the account. I've been using long passwords with letters, numbers and symbols, where allowed, for a number of years.
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Who wants to buy a spy?
from Kat on 06/08/2015 02:59 PM(ANTIMEDIA) In what has got to be one of the creepier consumer moves of recent years, Mattell has launched a new Barbie doll that can record childrens' voices and upload them to the internet. Come Autumn of 2015, the 'Hello Barbie' doll will facilitate two-way conversations between children and their dolls. While the ostensible purpose of this technology is to create a doll that has seemingly organic conversations with kids, it's difficult to not see this as yet another strange Orwellian surveillance tool.
As of yet, there is no direct evidence that the dolls will actually be spying on the kids in real time, but we do know they will be archiving everything the children say in a database, likely to be sold to data mining companies.
Originally used at charities, a few parents made the unnerving discovery that in order for the doll to work, their children's voices had to be uploaded to the internet via WiFi. The doll 'listens' to the kids, transmits their words to the cloud and then uses Siri-like algorithmic artificial intelligence to issue a response.
In the above video, notice how Barbie's questions seek to garner personal information about the child, her interests and her family. For example, Barbie remarks: 'I love New York, don't you?' Then she asks: 'Tell me, what's your favourite part about the city?' When the saleswoman responds by saying she likes Italian restaurants, Barbie says: 'You have to take me to try it!'
So imagine this same scenario with children involved: their likes and dislikes, interpersonal information about their families, etc.
According to the Washington Post, "Hello Barbie works by recording a child's voice with an embedded microphone that is triggered by pressing a button on the doll. As the doll "listens," audio recordings travel over the Web to a server where the snippets of speech are recognized and processed. That information is used to help form Hello Barbie's responses."
However, executive director of the nonprofit Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Susan Linn, said: "Kids using 'Hello Barbie' aren't only talking to a doll, they are talking directly to a toy conglomerate whose only interest in them is financial."
The privacy policy of ToyTalk (the subdivision which manages Hello Barbie) makes it clear that the information could be used in a variety of ways:
"We may use, transcribe and store such Recordings to provide and maintain the Service, to develop, test or improve speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence algorithms, and for other research and development or internal purposes. We may make such Recordings available to the parent account holder and permit the parent account holder to share such Recordings with third parties."
The issue of data gathering is particularly relevant in light of the recent passage of the USA FREEDOM Act, the successor to the PATRIOT Act, that essentially transfers certain powers of surveillance and data collection from the NSA to private contractors. The government has certainly not relinquished all or even much of its surveillance abilities, but it seems they are outsourcing and privatizing certain aspects of it.
With the new 'Hello Barbie' doll, we see yet another example of ubiquitous surveillance and corporate data gathering. Once again, they've ingeniously integrated the technology into our homes and, this time, they've enlisted our children as the unwitting messengers.
Re: How is the weather where you live?
from Seonag on 06/08/2015 02:59 PM74F and 84% Humidity at 7:55 am on Kentucky Lake. Going up to about 86F this afternoon with chance of severe T-storms! They say humidity may drop tomorrow and Wednesday.
Re: How is the weather where you live?
from Kat on 06/08/2015 02:52 PM78 degrees with 75% humidity at 8 am . Going to be hot and miserable later. 15 days out they are talking 100 degrees. Good thing they can't predict that far ahead. LOL
Re: Did any of your account has hacked by hackers?
from Moscadini on 06/08/2015 02:45 PMNope... but I did have an issue with my ebay account once
Re: Did any of your account has hacked by hackers?
from Kat on 06/08/2015 02:21 PMMy Yahoo e-mail. I have a 13 character password on it now, hasn't happened since.
Re: Capuchin Or Iguana - Which Would You Prefer As Your Next Pet?
from Kat on 06/08/2015 02:18 PMneither
Re: Last reply to SodaHead New Direction
from Kat on 06/08/2015 02:16 PMI saw that one and GoDucks reply that was deleted before he was banned for telling Fef the truth. I wouldn't touch his open FB group for anything. Just hoping to string people along and make more money off them. Sort of like asking your rapist to call 911 for you to me.
Re: I have noticed that Google has changed a lot, lately. I am worried they are going to get rid of Gmail, at some point.
from ajmsituation on 06/08/2015 02:14 PMI'm not worried about it, but if you are you can always back up your emails to your computer. Google is too heavily invested to be shut down so I don't really see it going anywhere.
Re: Can you judge a person by their handshake?
from Kittyhawk1903 on 06/08/2015 02:09 PMMost often a handshake along with the way a person stands and making eye contact tells me all I need to know. So called "Wet fish" handshake is not always a bad indicator...lots of other actions a person does with a WF handshake can "Cancel" a poor handshake.