I can’t help but laugh at those Samsung “smart refrigerator” commercials where all the family is laughing and smiling at its cameras and telling it to order food for them. Like enjoy your government spy device. Samsung doesn’t even try to hide that their shit is constantly recording you.
This isn’t new, what’s new is the public’s indifference.
Just do some digging. AT&T (the orginal AT&T, not SBC AT&T) had readily provided government with a handset to any home or business within the US since it’s 1950′s under the purpose of providing access for ELINT.
Just outside El Paso the US government maintains one of the largest antenna farms in the Western hemisphere, under the original purpose of intercepting ELINT coming from South America, but now they can intercept all manner of ELINT in the region.
Government surveillance programs with the direct involvement of ISP and TELCO like; Boundless Information, Carnivore, Main Core, Magic Lantern, Mystic, Muscular, PRISM, BULLRUN, MAINTSAY, ect…
The FBI has had the means to access and control cellular devices since the 1990′s…
Bread & Circuses.
Haha Remember when pointing out this stuff would get you mocked as a conspiracy nut? Haha