18-10-2011, 12:58 AM
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Yes, I've been seeing quite a bit recently about Siri and the implications are quite stunning to say the least.Ed Jewett Wrote:* I was going to suggest that we have some kind of mechanism everyone would be required to wear... an IFF beanie... that transmitted in the background and in an ongoing manner the full array of self-labels, information consumption trends and tendencies, the results of psychological screening tests, one's tendencies or proclivities....I am reading e.g. here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/ that SIRI sends some or all of your audio to servers by "Nuance Communications" for analysis and receives back the analysis.
or, it appears, we could simply carry an android that would do it for us.
'mere C3PO...
Imagine: What can anybody know and do if he has access to every word you speak into your mobile, plenty of your voice samples together with accurate location? It makes it very easy to : 1. Identify your voice, e.g. on a normal phone connection, 2. Synthesize your voice for any purpose, 3. Use the content of your words for any purpose (advertising being the most innocent of them).
The perfection of the elimination of privacy and identity is stunning.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.