if you're worried about the NSA violating your privacy you should also
consider the fact that civilians regular people can also violate your privacy in
very very simple ways
now these two men that refer to themselves as artists I
Kyle doc McDonald in Bryan house say that they created
%uh allied insulation basically I'll eight-ball
that can record your conversations while you're in a private or public place
and then as you're having that conversation they can use Amazon's
Mechanical Turk
to transcribe the conversation and put snippets a bit
onto Twitter know we have a video explaining in a little more detail let's
take a quick look at that
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the that's great well that's why the previous views i've seen hotel extremely
creepy but I think that it does shed light
on a really serious issue right something that we talk about on the show
quite often we talk about privacy violations yes the government does it
but in this case they're basically saying hey you know what all you need is
about a hundred dollars
you can create the exact same device that we have that came out weird
in the act the exact same device that we have and other
you can not only record a conversation that's taking place but you can use
technology that's readily available to you
to then transcribe it and put it onto Twitter so how does that work
here's what they say the device records audio with help from the nearest open
wifi connection
and pains freelance workers to have his aunt Mechanical Turk program to
transcribe the audio into tweets
then they also claim that any of the names of your personal details
overburdened public conversations
were removed before the statements were posted on to Twitter out the few tweets
that did refer to a specific individual
only did so with a single letter abbreviation where name would have been
so you get the sense they're saying look we're doing this is a performance art
we're trying to make a point but we didn't want to violate anyone's privacy
in the process of doing it
well and perhaps you should never demanded that I think it's incredibly
easy to abuse but I know
technology being what it is somebody would come up with that and at least
they don't mean harm by it
so that's good they could use it for bad purposes immediately didn't have to make
a video about it and Teller
tells all about it so I I'm not blaming them but it is disturbing overall
because you think people are going to use them for about purposes
but here's the thing that I find really interesting %uh this varies from state
to state
up but there are wiretap laws that prevent
people like us from doing exactly what they did in that video
and I was fine that really interesting because we can't violate anyone's
privacy
but other people in the government officials people in power can buy a
little privacy as much as they want they can collect
I'd information on us indiscriminately and if you try to stir the pot if you
tried reveal that information well
espionage or whistleblower how dare you you didn't deserve to be prosecuted
yeah so I if you think husbands or wives were going through
troublesome perhaps a breakup are going to use this
you're nuts if you think that some
a employers are going to use this you know
some competitors by the way so let's say you want to know what
the the other side of the transaction is thinking and you're gonna make an offer
do you know a Kevin van is this what you
huge advantage right now so soon I'm afraid
that through this it had doesn't have to be this specific thing about light bulbs
in a technology like this will be so prevalent that
its kinda shred any privacy we have left have you ever spied on anyone
that you've dated her now I you know
its is a personal thing I hated I can't stand it I
I found my sister's dire when we use a fight all the time we were kids about it
under Brad
under a mattress and I didn't read a word several
Paul hahaha okay and II slow to wash their own Andrews online
I don't know I hate violations of privacy good okay
so its fiber-to-the-home a lot of people can't resist and I
but I'm not blaming you if you stumble across something you see id
but don't go out here waited to tap people its it's just gonna cause you a
mask or cause them a mass
look people about like having a superpower
reading people's minds you don't want to read people's heart no I don't want to
read people's mind but some terrible die while I don't need of you for reading my
my
yeah I think that day if you did read people's minds that you would go through
two stages one is
unbelievable revulsion may be getting like overhead
cuz there's always say that people don't sake there's a reason why they don't say
it because they don't wanna
be an ass so they don't want to upset you they don't you know what i'm saying
I know but you know the thing that sucks is people think negative things about
you
all the time they don't know what they are it's good that you don't know what
they are it's good
yeah in a little bit allies are held world okay
and then the same meaning you would find out is
oh my god everybody's crazy yet rated everybody's
here is crazy everybody's de beers everybody's perverted
you know it you name all the bad things right they're also good in kind hearted
know that's up to her
and then he would come for I guess in some ways to help your appreciation of
humanity
but through lotto questionable stuff rate
and we might all get there is a society whether we like it or not
because we're about to find out what a lot of people think or spying on
everybody yeah