Tootfinder

A clear sign that you work in IT and have seen horrors 🙂
#SmartHome #Nest

A bit of a rant (AdTech, Surveillance Tech, AI)
So… "#Microsoft announces #Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware". What joy/buzzword splurging this is…
#AdTech, #Alexa, #Nest, #Siri, "integration with OpenAI" do not help here either. Nor do things like the #BBC saying "just ask your smart speaker to play Radio 2" (:rolled_up_newspaper: News flash, your speaker isn't smart, it's just connected to something that can decipher some bits of language in specific orders… try using the command line, it's about as forgiving).
If people are going to trust it then it needs to be transparent in how it works. Having Microsoft Windows feed usage behaviour, email content, and goodness knows what else back into "the system" to "improve things" with no up-front way to opt-out is abhorrent. (When you start Microsoft Mail #Outlook Express, it says two things: 1. We'll store all your email on our servers, 2. We'll share "things" with over 800 third parties. If you don't like either of those things, don't use Outlook).
We thought #Google
was bad when it started scraping our email to place ads … when the OS starts doing that, you're in trouble.
And I'll just leave this here… "An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen"
#TheRegister