Living in a World Where Your Appliances Spy on YouMelissa Melton You are fast asleep in the middle of the night, when suddenly you hear the voice of a strange man talking to your baby daughter from inside her room. You jump up and rush in there to find that, other than your infant sleeping in her crib, no one is there. You focus on the source of the sound your WI-FI baby monitor camera, which suddenly turns its lens on you without your prompt, so whoever has hacked it can scream obscenities at you in your own home in the middle of the night. Thats what happened to one Cincinnati, Ohio couple just last week according to WBTV FOX19: The takeaway is, if you can use it to spy on your child, it can be used to spy on you. The same goes with all this smart technology. Last fall, LG Electronics was caught sending data about its customers viewing habits on several of its smart TV models to a company in South Korea even after one customer changed his privacy setting to off, supposedly disabling the TVs ability for collection of watching info in the options menu (it is a creepy enough sign of the times that this option comes standard anyway). The company later released an apology statement. ABC News also released a list of the nine household appliances that might be spying on you, on your habits, on your usage, on your life: And Back to the Future promised us hover boards Last Spring Wired reported that former CIA Director David Patraeus could hardly wait to spy on people through their appliances when he was discussing how this is all a part of the coming Internet of Things a future where everything is technologically connected to everything else: We are living in an era of Big Data. It was a big talking point at last years Bildeberg Conference, after all. Periodicals like MIT Technology Review pose the question Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible? which is is essentially telling you we live in a ubiquitously monitored information age. How much do you value your privacy? Do younger generations even know what privacy truly is anymore? Well, in the new smart grid were all being assimilated into, you really arent meant to have any. Related selfnews Post Article: Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 