"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
(C.S. Lewis - Magician's Nephew)

"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
(George Orwell - 1984 - chap 1)

Are WiFi Appliances Prepping The Public For Carbon Tracking & Social Credit Scores? (Infowars - 11/7/2023)

Doctor Warns Your iWatch & FitBit are Tracking You, Giving Data to the World Economic Forum. (The Alex Jones Show - 26/8/2022) -> with Dr. Jason Dean

Big Tech's threat to democracy: Can the US government tolerate the existence of a rival within its territory? (Matthew B Crawford - UnHerd - 29/6/2021)

New Google Nest Hub Can Track Sleep With Radar. (Charlotte Pence Bond - DailyWire - 16/3/2021) -> So now Google needs to know when you're sleeping... What else does Google "need" to know???

Report: Facebook Wants to Build Facial Recognition Tech into 'Smart Glasses'. (Lucas Nolan - Breitbart - 27/2/2021)

Apple Judge Rejects Suit Claiming Siri Serial Eavesdropping. (Malathi Nayak - Bloomberg - 10/2/2021)

Amazon Ring App Found to be (Again) Exposing User Locations, Home Addresses. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 22/1/2021)

The Garmin Ransomware Hack Is Horrifying: The hack reveals that fitness tracking companies are vulnerable troves of sensitive data and aren't taking your privacy seriously. (Kevin Truong - MotherBoard - 28/7/2020)

FTC The Latest To Discover 'Smart' Locks Are Dumb, Easily Compromised. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 10/4/2020)

Intruder Hacks Eight-Year-Old's Bedroom Security Camera, Terrifies Her With Disturbing Messages. (Hank Berrien - DailyWire - 15/12/2019)

Is Amazon's Surveillance Machine Secretly Infiltrating Police Departments? (Tyler Durden - ZeroHedge - 25/8/2019)

Rogue 'Smart' Ovens Again Highlight How Dumb Tech Is Often The Smarter Choice. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 23/8/2019)

Amazon Alexa transcripts live on, even after you delete voice records: You can delete voice recordings so Amazon can't listen to your conversations with Alexa anymore, but text records are a different story. (Alfred Ng - CNET - 9/5/2019)

Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent: The Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent, but industry association lobbying defanged it. (Rob Dozier - MotherBoard - 12/4/2019)

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa: A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands. (Matt Day, Giles Turner and Natalia Drozdiak - Bloomberg - 10/4/2019)

Google Nest Secure home security system's hidden microphone was never disclosed to consumers. (Pat Gray - The Blaze - 21/2/2019)

Google Forgot To Tell Users About Its Hidden Spy Microphone. (Niamh Harris - News Punch - 20/2/2019)

Google a caché un micro dans certains produits Nest pendant deux ans: Les appareils de la gamme Nest Guard n'étaient pas censés contenir de microphone, mais Google a révélé lors d'une mise à jour que le capteur était en fait bien présent et activable par la voix. (Elisa Braun - Figaro - 08/02/2019)

Worried Amazon Will Add Facial Recognition to Doorbells? Too Late. (David Cardinal - ExtremeTech - 13/12/2018)

How Bike-Sharing Services And Electric Vehicles Are Sending Personal Data to The Chinese Government. (Glyn Moody - TechDirt - 11/12/2018)

Dystopia Now: Insurance Company Secretly Spying on Sleep Apnea Patients. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 26/11/2018)

Richard Stallman: Dangers of IoT and Amazon Alexa. (YouTube - 17 min. 6/5/2018)

Security researchers found a way to hack into the Amazon Echo. (Techsario - 13/8/2018)

Amazon Alexa Instantaneously Justifies Years of Surveillance Paranoia. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 25/5/2018)

The Internet of Things (IoT) Poses Huge Numbers of Worldwide Security Risks, Large and Small. (Digilloyd - 21/5/2018)

Malicious Siri commands can be hidden in music and innocuous-sounding speech recordings. (Ben Lovejoy - 9to5Mac - 10/5/2018) [A group of students from Berkeley have demonstrated how malicious commands to Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa can be hidden in recorded music or innocuous-sounding speech. Simply playing the tracks over the radio, streaming music track or podcast could allow attackers to take control of a smart home.]

No, Thanks, Jeff Bezos. I Do NOT Want Alexa Controlling My Home. (David Klinghoffer - Evolution News - 9/5/2018)

Turning an Echo Into a Spy Device Only Took Some Clever Coding. (Lily Hay Newman - Wired - 25/4/2018)

'Voice sniffer' est à votre écoute: Toujours en marche, toujours à l'écoute : Amazon dévoile le système d'intelligence artificielle 'voice sniffer' avec un nouveau brevet pour analyser TOUTES les données audio. (Paroles de Dieu - 16/4/2018)

Amazon Unveils A "Voice Sniffer" Algo In New Patent. (Tyler Durden - ZeroHedge - 5/4/2018)

IoT devices could be next customer data frontier. (Ron Miller - TechCrunch - 30/3/2018)

Le piratage de pacemaker : un risque nouveau. (Anne Prigent - Le Figaro - 21/3/2018)

Alexa, What Are You Doing with My Family's Personal Info?: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and several smart-home technologies that debuted at last week s CES add convenience but also raise privacy concerns. (Larry Greenemeier - SciAm - 15/1/2018)

Alexa, Burn My House Down. (Adam Clark Estes - Gizmodo - 4/1/2018)

Internet provider warns users torrenting could lead to "thermostat issues". (Chris Mills - BGR - 30/12/2017)

Certain Sonos and Bose models can be accessed by hackers to play sound remotely. (Brian Heater - TechCrunch - 27/12/2017)

Faux jouets mais vrais espions. (Disciple - Paroles de Dieu - 15/12/2017)

Smart Handgun Safe Not Smart Enough Not to Let Basically Anyone Break Into It. (Timothy Geigner- TechDirt - 13/12/2017)

Is Alexa Really Eavesdropping on You? (Brad Stone - Bloomberg - 11/12/2017)

Fooling Amazon and Google's voice recognition isn't hard: If your roommates sound like you, they might be able to use your smart speaker to access your info or make purchases. Here's how you can protect yourself. [Google Assistant and Alexa] (Andrew Gebhart - CNET - 21/11/2017)

New Study Finds Poorly Secured Smart Toys Lets Attackers Listen In On Your Kids. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 16/11/2017)

Don't Buy Anyone an Echo. (Adam Clark Estes - Gizmodo - 5/12/2017)

How to Stop Your Sonos From Collecting (As Much) Personal Data. (Patrick Lucas Austin - LifeHacker - 25/8/2017)

Sonos : envoi de données personnelles obligatoire, ou plus de mise à jour ! (RudeBaguette - 24/8/2017)

Sonos : les données ou la vie de vos (nos) appareils !: Business : Le fabricant Sonos ne permettra pas aux clients de refuser la nouvelle politique de confidentialité. Ils doivent accepter la collecte de données, sinon plus de mises à jour et le risque que le produit cesse de fonctionner. Peut-on encore parler de consentement ? (Christophe Auffray - ZDNet - 22/8/2017)

'Smart' Lock Vendor Locks Hundreds Out Of Their Home With Bungled Firmware Update. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 18/8/2017)

Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner Will Soon Suck Up And Sell Data About You And Your Home. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 29/7/2017)

Apple is reportedly working to make the iPhone the central hub for all your health data: The secretive, rapidly expanding health team inside Apple is working to turn the iPhone into a one-stop shop for all your medical information, according to a report from CNBC. (Edoardo Maggio - Business Insider - 15/6/2017)

Advanced CIA firmware has been infecting Wi-Fi routers for years: Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007. (Dan Goodin - Ars Techica - 15/6/2017)

Why printers add secret tracking dots: They re almost invisible but contain a hidden code  and now their presence on a leaked document has sparked speculation about their usefulness to FBI investigators. (Chris Baraniuk - BBC Future - 7/6/2017)

6th Grader Uses Teddy Bear to Hack Cybersecurity Conference: Reuben Paul used a common toy to show how the Internet of Things can be easily manipulated and weaponized to spy on or otherwise harm the public. (AFP - Seeker - 16/5/2017)

Your IoT Baby Isn't as Beautiful as You Think It Is: Both development and evaluation teams have been ignoring security problems in Internet-connected devices for too long. That must stop. (Andrew Howard - InformationWeek/DarkReading - 10/5/2017)

New IoT Botnet Discovered, 120K IP Cameras At Risk of Attack: The Persirai IoT botnet, which targets IP cameras, arrives hot on the heels of Mirai and highlights the growing threat of IoT botnets. (Kelly Sheridan - InformationWeek/DarkReading - 9/5/2017)

Bose accused of spying on end users, data mining their private records via headphone app. (Joel Hruska - Extreme Tech - 19/4/2017)

How to listen to everything Amazon Echo has ever heard. (Kim Komando - FoxNews - 15/4/2017)

Amazon agrees to hand over Echo data in murder case: The move avoids a potential legal battle that could have pitted privacy and law enforcement concerns against each other. (Ben Fox Rubin - CNET - 7/3/2017)

Menace pour la vie privée des petits, la poupée "Cayla" interdite en Allemagne. (AFP - L'Express - 18/2/2017)

German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears. (BBC - 17/2/2017)

Another Lawsuit Highlights How Many 'Smart' Toys Violate Privacy, Aren't Secure. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 8/12/2016)

You should probably still avoid toys that talk with your kids. (Devin Coldewey - TechCrunch - 6/12/2016)

Self-Propagating Smart Light Bulb Worm. (Schneier on Security - 9/11/2016)

Your Earbuds Can Be Made Into Microphones With Just A Bit Of Malware. (Timothy Geigner - TechDirt - 9/11/2016)

Not Even Your Light Bulbs Are Safe From Shitty Internet of Things Security. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 8/11/2016)

7 Imminent IoT Threats: Attacks against smart home products, medical devices, SCADA systems, and other newly network-enabled systems signal the beginning of a new wave of attacks against the IoT. (Jai Vijayan - Dark Reading - 21/10/2016)

UK Government Says Smart Meters Can Definitely Be Trusted Because GCHQ Designed Their Security. (Glyn Moody - TechDirt - 29/9/2016)

Your 'Smart' Power Outlets Are Now Botnets Thanks To The Internet Of Broken Things. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 23/8/2016)

Def Con: Do smart devices mean dumb security? (BBC News - 6/8/2016)

Why hackers love health apps: Most health apps don't have good privacy or security safeguards. (Xuanyan Ouyang - MacWorld - 26/7/2016)

Disney Wants to Track Park Visitors By Secretly Photographing Their Shoes Like a Creep. (Gizmodo - Andrew Liszewski - 28/7/2016)

Internet of Things to be used as spy tool by governments: US intel chief: Clapper says spy agencies "might" use IoT for surveillance, location tracking. (David Kravets - ArsTechnica - 10/2/2016)

Ding-Dong -- Your Easily Hacked 'Smart' Doorbell Just Gave up Your WiFi Credentials. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 21/1/2016)

Pass through airport security with this implanted NFC chip. (Todd Ogasawara - ExtremeTech - 19/1/2016)

New York bill would ban strong encryption, mandate backdoors in all devices. (ExtremeTech - 2016)

Why Is My Smart Home So Fucking Dumb? (Adam Clark Estes - Gizmodo - 2/12/2015)

Toy Maker Vtech Hacked, Revealing Kids' Selfies, Chat Logs, & Even Voice Recordings. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 1/12/2015)

Backdoored Business Routers An Emerging Threat: Discovery of malicious implants in 14 Cisco routers, "tip of iceberg" FireEye says. (InformationWeek - 15/9/2015)

Researchers hack a pacemaker, kill a man(nequin): Researchers decided you don't need to be a pen tester to wirelessly hack a pacemaker, to successfully launch brute force and denial of service attacks that can kill iStan simulated humans. (Darlene Storm - ComputerWorld - 8/9/2015)

Internet of Not-So-Smart Things: Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Can Expose Your Gmail Password. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 25/8/2015)

The Internet of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything is Monitored. (Tyler Durden - ZeroHedge - 02/03/2015)

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program. (Reuters - 2015)

Google patents 'creepy' internet toys to run the home. (Leo Kelion - BBC - 2015)

Worm Illuminates Potential NAS Nightmare: A researcher at Black Hat Europe hopes to demonstrate a homegrown, self-replicating worm to illustrate major threats to popular network-attached storage systems. (KJ HIggins - DarkReading - 15/9/2014)

Smart Meter Opponent Who Was Arrested for Filming Cops Last Year Found Not Guilty. (The Blaze - 2014)

Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products. (Bill Snyder - InfoWorld - 15/5/2014)

Backdoors in Wi-Fi routers, said to be closed, can be reopened. (Adam Greenberg - SC Mag - 22/4/2014)

Ils piratent des implants médicaux! Des informaticiens sont parvenus à dérégler un stimulateur cardiaque et une pompe à insuline. La santé des patients pourrait être mise en danger. (Simon Koch - Tribune de Genève - 10/4/2012)

The Cringeworthy Mindless Tech Propaganda category...

Why smart toilets might actually be worth the upgrade. (Bradford - CNET - 1/2/2016)

Internet of Things will place greater pressure on companies to modernize. (MacTech - 2015) -> AgitProp... (note the use of words such as "pressure", "must" and "IoT-ready")