Very Creepy Google Too Amazon Patents (Amzn; Goog)

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Just kidding, the author provides footnotes together with links to sources.
And it actually is creepy every bit hell.

From ConsumerWatchdog.org:
Google, Amazon Patent Filings Reveal Digital Home Assistant Privacy Problems

Executive Summary
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel report reveals that Amazon together with Google convey filed patent applications for a position out of technologies that would dramatically expand surveillance of consumers’ private lives. These patent applications demo how technology scientific discipline companies utilization domicile information to pull disturbing inferences close households, together with how the companies mightiness utilization that information for fiscal gain. The technologies detailed inwards the patent applications include:

• Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 organisation for deriving sentiments together with behaviors from ambient speech, fifty-fifty when a user has non addressed the device amongst its “wakeword .” In 2014, every bit Amazon was preparing to gyre out its Echo smart speaker, the companionship patented an algorithm that could head to human speech, including telephone conversations, for statements of involvement such every bit “I honey skiing.” (1) The algorithm would together with hence procedure the acre ments into telephone commutation words that could hold upwards used to target advertising. The patent describes transmitting the keywords to Amazon servers every bit text, which could permit the companionship to spy on conversations spell technically keeping its hope to exclusively shop together with analyze a udio recordings that a user intends to share.

• Multiple systems for identifying speakers inwards a conversation together with edifice involvement profiles for each one. Both Google together with Amazon offering users the selection of creating acoustic “voice profiles” for vocalism - activated smart devices inwards their homes. (2) These profiles tin aid the devices tailor services to the mortal speaking. Patents demo that both Amazon together with Google could also utilization vocalism profiles to associate behaviors amongst private members of the household, inwards guild to improve target ads. (3)

• Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 method for inferring users 'showering habits together with targeting advertising based on that together with other data. Dozens of patent applications for Google’s smart domicile devices item scenarios inwards which Google may portion information from smart domicile devices amongst 3rd parties, including businesses, who tin together with hence utilization the information to brand inferences close users’ sleeping, cooking, entertainment, together with showering schedules. (4) These inferences, Google says, “may aid 3rd - parties produce goodness consumers yesteryear providing them amongst interesting information, products together with services every bit good every bit amongst providing them amongst targeted advertisements.”

• Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 organisation for recommending products based on furnis hings observed yesteryear a smart domicile safety camera. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 especially troubling patent application describes how Google could utilization video feeds from smart devices to decide users’ behaviors together with characteristics, including “ gender, age, fashion - taste, style, mood, known languages, preferred activities, together with hence forth .” (5) The patent application describes smart devices that target advertisements based on the championship of the mass yesteryear a user’s bedside, the presence of a guitar or basketball game inwards the room, together with the facial expression upwards of a famous purpose musician on a user’s t - shirt. 

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Huge HT to privacy consultant Dylan Curran whose twitter feed has the abbreviated version.