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The Whole POINT of the Internet of Things Is So Big Brother Can Spy On You

Posted by M. C. on March 17, 2017

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/whole-point-internet-things-big-brother-can-spy-2.html#more-66181

 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 appliancesaccording to SmartPlanet.
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