"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
(C.S. Lewis - Magician's Nephew)

"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
(George Orwell - 1984 - chap 1)

Les enfants accros aux écrans et sans contact humain seront une génération de conformistes, selon une sociologue française. (Alicia Hernández - BBC News - 24/9/2023)

PHAC wants new surveillance tools to track Covid vaccination in 'hard-to-reach populations': The Public Health Agency of Canada previously came under fire after it was revealed the agency surveilled approximately 30 million Canadians for COVID compliance by collecting cell phone location data. (Sheila Gunn Reid - Rebel News - 5/9/2023)

This Town Banned Kids from Having Smart Phones and The Results Were Stunning… (Cassie Cole - Washington Engager - 4/9/2023)

Smartphones Are the New Civilizational Crisis: They make us incapable of normal human interaction. (Frank DeVito - The American Spectator - 9/8/2023)

Are WiFi Appliances Prepping The Public For Carbon Tracking & Social Credit Scores? (Infowars - 11/7/2023)

It's Getting Harder to Live Without a Smartphone, And That's a Massive Problem. (Victoria Marshall - The Federalist - 15/2/2023)

'Why Not Create A Tesla of The Mind': New Implant Revealed That Treats Chronic Depression. (Hank Berrien - DailyWire - 12/1/2023) -> But if such an implant can be used to treat depression, then it could just as well be used to CAUSE depression...

Abus d'écran : les enfants développent une maladie oculaire de seniors. (FranceSoir - 20/10/2022)

The Smartphone's Role In Dumbing Down America. (Bruce Wilds/The Advancing Time Blog - Tyler Durden/Zero Hedge - 24/9/2022)

Spirals of Delusion: How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous. (Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, and Jeremy Wallace - Foreign Affairs - 31/8/2022)

Doctor Warns Your iWatch & FitBit are Tracking You, Giving Data to the World Economic Forum. (The Alex Jones Show - 26/8/2022) -> with Dr. Jason Dean

Don't Make Me Think. (Zero HP Lovecraft - 5/11/2022) -> a short story...

The Smartphone's Role In Dumbing Down America. (Bruce Wilds - Advancing Time - 6/8/2022)

The Collapse of Teen Mental Health — And Deadly Mass Shootings — Can Be Traced to One Single Trend. (Dylan Housman - Daily Caller - 27/5/2022)

Big Tech's threat to democracy Can the US government tolerate the existence of a rival within its territory? (Matthew B Crawford - UnHerd - 29/6/2021)

New Google Nest Hub Can Track Sleep With Radar. (Charlotte Pence Bond - DailyWire - 16/3/2021) -> So now Google needs to know when you're sleeping... What else does Google "need" to know???

Apple Judge Rejects Suit Claiming Siri Serial Eavesdropping. (Malathi Nayak - Bloomberg - 10/2/2021)

Amazon Ring App Found to be (Again) Exposing User Locations, Home Addresses. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 22/1/2021)

The Garmin Ransomware Hack Is Horrifying: The hack reveals that fitness tracking companies are vulnerable troves of sensitive data and aren't taking your privacy seriously. (Kevin Truong - MotherBoard - 28/7/2020)

Rogue 'Smart' Ovens Again Highlight How Dumb Tech Is Often The Smarter Choice. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 23/8/2019)

Elon Musk wants to merge our brains with computers by 2020. (Chris Ciaccia - Fox News - 17/7/2019)

Amazon Alexa transcripts live on, even after you delete voice records: You can delete voice recordings so Amazon can't listen to your conversations with Alexa anymore, but text records are a different story. (Alfred Ng - CNET - 9/5/2019)

Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent: The Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent, but industry association lobbying defanged it. (Rob Dozier - MotherBoard - 12/4/2019)

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa: A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands. (Matt Day, Giles Turner and Natalia Drozdiak - Bloomberg - 10/4/2019)

Google Nest Secure home security system's hidden microphone was never disclosed to consumers. (Pat Gray - The Blaze - 21/2/2019)

Google Forgot To Tell Users About Its Hidden Spy Microphone. (Niamh Harris - News Punch - 20/2/2019)

Google a caché un micro dans certains produits Nest pendant deux ans: Les appareils de la gamme Nest Guard n'étaient pas censés contenir de microphone, mais Google a révélé lors d'une mise à jour que le capteur était en fait bien présent et activable par la voix. (Elisa Braun - Figaro - 08/02/2019)

Worried Amazon Will Add Facial Recognition to Doorbells? Too Late. (David Cardinal - ExtremeTech - 13/12/2018)

How Bike-Sharing Services And Electric Vehicles Are Sending Personal Data to The Chinese Government. (Glyn Moody - TechDirt - 11/12/2018)

Dystopia Now: Insurance Company Secretly Spying on Sleep Apnea Patients. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 26/11/2018)

Amazon Alexa Instantaneously Justifies Years of Surveillance Paranoia. (Karl Bode - TechDirt - 25/5/2018)

The Internet of Things (IoT) Poses Huge Numbers of Worldwide Security Risks, Large and Small. (Digilloyd - 21/5/2018)

Alexa, What Are You Doing with My Family's Personal Info?: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and several smart-home technologies that debuted at last week s CES add convenience but also raise privacy concerns. (Larry Greenemeier - SciAm - 15/1/2018)

Alexa, Burn My House Down. (Adam Clark Estes - Gizmodo - 4/1/2018)

Faux jouets mais vrais espions. (Disciple - Paroles de Dieu - 15/12/2017)

Is Alexa Really Eavesdropping on You? (Brad Stone - Bloomberg - 11/12/2017)