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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Is Your Smart Home Spying On You & Is It OK?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9112 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Buzz: “I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my coffee maker…baby monitor…my bed…to find out whether it would betray me” gizmodo.com. “In a world where we’re all paranoid about devices spying on us (and rightfully so), perhaps no other devices receive more scrutiny than smarthome products. But is that scrutiny warranted?” howtogeek.com “Just about every smart device, that is connected to the internet and offers personalized services is spying on you” lifewire.com. “Kashmir Hill…turned her one-bedroom apartment into a smart home and was measuring how much data was being collected by the firms that made the devices…like living in a ‘commercial, surveillance state’ bbc.com. We’ll ask experts for their take: Ashwin Krishnan, UberKnowledge; Kristina Podnar, The Power of Digital Policy; Jessica Groopman, Kaleido Insights; Fiona McEvoy, YouTheData.com. Join us for Is Your Smart Home Spying On You & Is It OK?”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?

0:16.2

Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.

0:30.2

Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.

0:35.6

Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.

0:37.5

Oh, Bonnie in the House. I love that opening where it just goes over and over and repeats. That D. Graham. Oh, Bonnie in the House.

0:40.9

I love that opening where it just goes over and over and repeats.

0:46.5

That's the voice of my co-producer, Ryan, Treasure VP of Broadcast Operations at World Talk Radio.

0:50.0

I'm Bonnie, and we're here, and we have such an exciting show for you.

0:51.2

We have a global audience.

0:54.2

There are at least 50,000 of you a month tuning in.

1:02.1

We recently ranked number four on the iTunes Technology Podcast list, and we're so grateful that you are listening and you love our content.

1:04.1

So let's see what the buzz is today.

1:13.1

I have four quotes, one from gizmodo.com, one from how to geek.com, one from Lifewire, and one from the BBC. Let me read them,

1:17.1

and this will set us up for what my esteemed panelists are going to be talking about today.

1:23.2

So here's a quote from Gizmodo, quote, I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet. And Amazon Echo, my lights, my coffee maker, my baby monitor, my kids' toys, my vacuum, my TV,

1:31.5

my toothbrush, a photo frame, a sex toy, and even my bed to find out whether it would

1:36.7

betray me.

1:37.6

That's from someone who wrote The Spy, The House That Spied on Me on Gus Moter.

1:41.7

Here's a quote from How to Geek.

1:43.4

In a world where we're all paranoid about devices spying on me on Gus motor. Here's a quote from How to Geek. In a world where we're

1:44.5

all paranoid about devices spying on us and rightfully so, perhaps no other devices receive

1:51.5

more scrutiny than smart home products. But is that scrutiny warranted? Ooh, that's an important

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