re: Is anyone else worried that Google and Amazon are taking over our lives?

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My wife is concerned about having nest cameras in the house. But then I asked her "Even if someone cracked our password and logged in to our account - who wants to watch a 4 year old and a 2 year old sleep?"

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Your kids are never naked in their rooms?

Exactly. And try explaining you were hacked to the local authorities when Comcast sends them an alert that they detected you are uploading naked videos of children.

Good luck with the sex offender registry you'll end up on.

Have you even paid attention to all the websites that exist featuring live hacked webcams?

Eh, well I purposely change my pw every now and then so I'm probably ok.
If not, I hope they're watching the sun slightly change on my daughters floor for the next 8 hours. Seems boring as shite to me but they can knock themselves out, if they want.

The good of the cameras outweighs the potential of bad, to me. But yes, those cams will be moved to cover the front and back doors of my house as soon as my girls get older and don't need to be monitored.

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the paranoia that consumes my cousin is a bit extreme... he’s so scared of the government and corporations spying on him that it prevents him from functioning like a normal person That’s a bit much

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Agreed. I have coworkers that are in the IT industry that act the same. I tend to ask them "how important do you think you are?" which they don't seem to get.

In short, no one generally cares about what the regular male or female is doing during the day or what we read or watch on the internet, at least not to the point of missing out on all the cool stuff today. Should we be aware of it and maybe even weary of it always with a self induced "checks and balances" of companies, sure. But not fear based shut ins.

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Eh, well I purposely change my pw every now and then so I'm probably ok.

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ok

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If not, I hope they're watching the sun slightly change on my daughters floor for the next 8 hours. Seems boring as shite to me but they can knock themselves out, if they want.

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you realize there is software out there that monitors this automatically and only starts recording when something 'interesting' happens.

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I think you and DoubleDown are severely underestimating the damage that can be done with seemingly innocuous information. I'd bet that just in the past month of your text history, there are dozens of phrases that can be taken out of context to make a case against you. A case for what? Who knows? Maybe you said something (a joke, maybe) that triggered the machine to flag you as a potential terrorist or other type of criminal. Maybe someone needs to meet an arrest quota. Are arrest quotas a thing? They might be one day.

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unless this has happened to you, you will never get it.

case in point, i used to work in a sales office with 2 other white males, a very hot/paranoid 'secretary type' who was newly married and an older greek lady who had the biggest potty mouth you've ever seen. we used to routinely tell off-color jokes as we were in an 'open air' environment and did not even have cubicle walls.

one day the secretary told us a story about her husband 'looking at her with tears in his eyes' when looking at a new 300z and basically belittling him. so we started making jokes about it and one day she flipped out over nothing and went & told the sales manager some of the off-color jokes we had made that were of a sexual nature and BOY did it look bad when it was written down in print! we were frickED (the 3 white guys anyway).

well once it reached the point they were actually going to start taking statements, the older greek woman saunters into the room and proceeds to completely eviscerate the secretary to the point she basically started crying, admitted she only did it out of spite and quit on the spot.

if it hadn't been for that older woman who was extermely well-respected in the company, we were all in deep doodoo and who knows where it would have ended?

TL;CAD;DR kork is 100% right. things you say in a completely throw-away manner can come back to haunt you in a BIG WAY and while you can scoff and laugh at tinfoil hats, i bet you'll be surprised one day how something that had no meaning at the timne can come back to bite you in the arse.

happens all the time in divorces.

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I'll counter with, name me 5 instances of this occurring?

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ask 5 newly divorced people on the OT if their ex presented something innocent they said/did in a way that made them look worse than Jack the Ripper when it was read out loud in court.

i'll wait

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ask 5 newly divorced people on the OT if their ex presented something innocent they said/did in a way that made them look worse than Jack the Ripper when it was read out loud in court.

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They don't need cams for this.
Most women (I can look up the percentages if you truly care) win divorce settlements overwhelmingly with or without evidence.

Most women get custody of the kids, etc. This has nothing to do with cams.
We've gotten off topic.

Cad, I love you, but on this topic we simply agree to disagree.