- Just so you know, the device that you're watching
this video on is watching you.
In fact, I can see you.
Why aren't you wearing pants, you sicko?!
Every single one of us uses technology in our daily lives.
In fact, we've become pretty reliant on it.
But what if I told you that your tablet, cell phone,
or pretty much everything else is actually watching you.
Here are 10 shady ways technology is spying on you.
Number 10 are modern cars.
Modern-day cars are loaded with different technologies
that are intended to help you navigate
and keep your hands and eyes glued
to the road in front of you.
Now, while these features are extremely convenient
for your drive, they can also be used
to peer into your private life.
For instance, the data from GPS software
installed in modern cars can be stored
and uploaded to the manufacturer, who can then sell it
to companies that want to know where you live
and where you tend to visit.
In fact, any information that your car
is picking up from you via your GPS,
voice command microphone, or built-in phone docks
can be sold to advertisers, market researchers,
or buyers of all kinds for shady purposes
at a major profit to the car manufacturer.
So if you're ever heading to a private location --
you know, maybe getting a little freaky somewhere --
remember that your car knows where you've been.
Honey, the recent places on the GPS says "private eye's".
What's that?
Number nine are cookies.
Ooh, cookies, I love cookies!
No, no, not the delicious kind, more like the
"I'm watching every single website that you visit" kind.
Cookies are small text files that save information
from your interactions with websites,
and help personalize the content that you see.
Each time you visit a site,
that cookie gets sent from your browser,
kind of like a written history of your time there,
helping to auto-complete usernames and passwords,
or get you past a welcome screen for newcomers.
Now, while many legitimate websites use these cookies
for the browser's benefit, other more nefarious cookies
will track all of your browsing history.
Yeah, all of it.
And these cookies, filled with all your browsing habits,
are often sold to marketing companies,
or even the government,
depending on what you've been looking at.
That's right, all your googling of "big booty goats"?
The government knows.
Clearing your browser's cookie cache helps once in a while,
but in some cases your internet history
is getting uploaded to strangers
and not even private browsing can help with that.
Yeah, that's right, the government knows
what you've been looking up,
so you might as well tweet it proudly.
#bigbootygoats
(bleating)
Number eight is movement tracking.
Your smartphone is a sophisticated device
packed with several small gadgets that help to determine
where you're going and what you're doing.
Several companies offer software for business phones
that allow employers to keep tabs on their employees
out in the field using GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes,
and barometers, all included in their smart phones.
They can spy quite efficiently on employees,
and can discern with surprising accuracy
what they're doing and if they're doing enough work.
Now, here's the fun part.
This software is not necessarily restricted
to business owners and could be used to creep on
just about anyone who leaves their phone unattended
long enough to install the software.
This is the tracking software that you absolutely
don't want any disgruntled ex-partners,
or, you know, creepy stalkers getting their hands on.
Uh, yeah, mm-hmm, just going to take a shower, honey.
It's all good.
No, you don't need your phone.
You don't need your phone!
Number seven are smart TVs.
With smart TVs everywhere,
the government and television manufacturers
have new ways to use our own technology
to extend their all-seeing eyes.
Some companies literally install
secret network back doors for government agencies
so that they can remotely activate any microphones
or cameras installed into your entertainment device.
Oh, but Matt, I don't have a smart TV.
I'm safe, it's all good.
No, you're not.
For the TVs that aren't smart enough for mikes and cameras,
they can still connect to your wifi
and can still watch programs with you,
in order to catalog your interests
or suggest new products by sending your data
back to the creeps at marketing headquarters.
Pretty much any technology with the word "smart"
in the title is smart enough to lure you
into a purchase with flashy features,
only to then stab you in the back
and report back to its overlords.
And this is very true, 'cause one time
I said out loud that I'm thinking about buying a bidet,
and I had my phone with me.
The next day, every single ad on my Facebook feed
was just water-spraying poop toilets.
Number six are public and private security cameras.
Unless you're a hermit in the deep woods,
living with the squirrels,
big brother is probably watching you
via public security cameras, which are becoming
more and more prevalent in even the smallest towns.
Publicly-owned and privately-owned security cameras
are popping up in major american cities like Chicago,
which in 2013 had over 22,000 cameras in operations.
Now, the cameras have been successful
in lowering the crime rates, which is great,
but at the cost of tainting any feelings of privacy
that pedestrians may have as they stroll around the city.
But here's the disturbing part.
The surveillance doesn't end at streets and intersections.
Cameras are even being installed on public transport buses
and subways, as well as in schools.
Security cameras in schools are especially popular
in the UK, where cameras aren't just found in classrooms
but in the change rooms and bathrooms as well.
So next time you enter a public restroom and sit down,
make sure you look around 'cause they're about to watch you
squirt one out.
Number five is call listening.
With all the advances in intrusive technology,
it's no surprise that, if you need to listen in
on someone's calls, read their texts
or view their mobile browsing history,
there's an app for that.
Here's a question for you.
Have you ever been given a smartphone as a present?
Because if you have, you might want to give it back.
That's because unless you really trust that person,
they could have installed the easy-to-use software
by a company named Mobile Spy.
It allows them to know literally every single thing
you do with that phone, and even gives them
a colorful flow chart.
And on this spike, you can see
that he googled "big booty goats" again.
He likes it.
Yes, you can become phone tapped
or even become the tapper for just $140 a year,
and skip the effort of eaves dropping the old-fashioned way.
Mobile Spy is actually marketed towards business owners
who want to spy on their employees,
and parents who think that monitoring their children
at this level of secrecy is healthy.
(gasps) Hey!
Hey, Timmy!
I see what you're googling in your room.
Boy, you goin' to church!
You need Jesus, boy!
Number four are Roomba maps.
And you thought there was no consequence
to having a little robot vacuum do the cleaning for you.
You were wrong.
Roombas are cute little robot vacuums
that can do no wrong, right?
Some people go as far as giving affectionate names to them
as if they're an animatronic maid off the Jetsons.
But while this friendly little dust buster
is scooting around your dwelling,
it's secretly making a digital blueprint of your place.
Now, thankfully, the software update allowing it to send
this detailed camera blueprint to its manufacturer, iRobot,
is still pending, but it gets worse.
Through small-print legal terms
that are accepted by purchasing the Roomba,
customers have technically already given consent
to send off the Roomba's data,
which iRobot may use themselves
or sell to companies like Google or Amazon.
Yup, this little vacuum buddy is a traitorous spy,
and he's planning on selling the blueprints of your home.
Yeah, that's right, next step it's gonna become sentient
and vacuum your face in your sleep.
(sucking) You dead.
Number three is webcam spying.
Webcams were once considered the next step
in online communication, but now it seems
that it could be the next big step towards mass surveillance
and a peephole into your private life.
Many modern computers come with built-in webcams,
but people tend to cover them with stickers
when they aren't in use.
This is because of how incredibly easy it is
for hackers to remotely activate them.
Think about it, have you always covered it?
Always?
Even when you're doing nasty things?
And it gets worse, because if you're the type of person
that leaves your laptop open or doesn't power down
your PC or Mac often, you could be spied on
while you're doing things in your home.
Gaining remote access to your personal webcam
is literally as easy as accidentally clicking the wrong link
or someone just even having access to your wifi.
How many times have you given out your wifi password, hm?
To strangers, people coming over?
You know what they doing.
Number two is buzzword listening.
Tech companies have nearly unrestricted access to your phone
with apps like Facebook Messenger
and the voice-activated "OK Google" feature.
When these apps are given permission
to use your microphone for calls, voice commands
or shooting video, they can stay active and listen.
For example, ever notice that Facebook's ads
can be shockingly relevant to something
you were just talking about?
One Reddit user describes testing this theory
by saying SpongeBob SquarePants several times into his phone
without activating the search function,
only to have it later appear in his search suggestions.
Oh, Mr. Krabs, they're watching us.
Others have seen entire language changes
in the ads that they're served
when their phone has been near foreign TV shows.
Now, Facebook says they only monitor
your likes and interests on the site.
But it seems evident that there's
a lot more to it than that.
Okay, be right back, just gonna break my phone in half.
And number one are mannequin cameras.
And you thought mannequins were already creepy enough
with their frozen features and lifeless plastic eyes.
But you're about to feel a lot worse
about walking near them when you learn
that some of them are literally staring back at you.
An Italian mannequin developer called ALMAX
has created models that will watch
and scan your face in order to help stores
better understand who buys clothes from them.
They're called EyeSee mannequins,
and they create customer profiles
on people that browse various chain stores
in Canada, United States and the UK.
EyeSee has been in use since 2012
at a cost of around $4,250 a piece.
ALMAX also sells smart mannequins
which can communicate with your phone via Bluetooth
and monitor your purchases as well as send you messages
about product when you get near them.
Well, if you had a doll or mannequin phobia before,
you're welcome! (maniacal laughter)
So that was 10 shady ways that technology is spying on you.
Hopefully you learned a little something from this.
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