On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 13:35:50 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/7/2017 12:20 PM, wrote:

Maybe he is ****ed off like I am from receiving a large amount of SPAM
from companies who seemed to know our habits.

If you don't want to be tracked you better sell your PC, your cell
phone, your credit cards and your toll transponders. Then it will
mostly just be the government and people with access to those records.
Most are public information.


While I don't care for my computer spewing targeted ads, it is well
known and open. Spying from a TV is plain sneaky.

I guess you would not want a Nielsen box on your TV either. :-)
As far as I am concerned, just knowing what I watch on TV is not all
that intrusive and collecting this information has been going on for a
long time. Cable/satellite companies can have it if they want it and
TiVo brags about it.
When your TV turns on the audio capture and front side camera it is
disturbing but I would not own one of those anyway. I also have an
Amazon Echo sitting here that has never been out of the shrink wrap.