The Future to be Dominated by Surveillance Smart Windows & other Tech’s?

Smart technologies are on the rise at crazy rates. Almost all of the smart technologies coming out are individually capable of connecting to the internet which ultimately put people’s privacy at risk. Just recently the Federal Trade Commission gave warning to American’s and essentially the whole world that smart appliances put people’s privacy at risk.

All these smart tech’s or smart appliances are designed to be able to communicate with each other, share data and pass along information. These smart appliances can have monitoring capabilities varying from appliance to appliance but one thing is for sure is that they are all connected together. Those attributes make up a smart home.

With these smart technologies abundant amongst the general population, corporations and extensions of the government will have the capability to know almost every aspect of peoples individual lives for commercial advertisement purposes to law enforcement purposes. They will know what people do in their homes, in their cars, on public transit, in buildings, in stores and within their whole community which can be all monitored by smart tech’s and smart appliances.

A big corporation that is pushing for a world ruled by smart technologies is Samsung. In the video below is a demonstration of how smart appliances within the not-so-far-future home will communicate with each other, which makes up the ‘smart house’:

We’re talking about:

• smart phones,
• smart watches,
• smart wrist bands,
• smart cameras,
• smart fridges,
• smart thermostats
• smart washing and drying machines,
• smart vacuums,
• smart ovens,
• smart toasters,
• smart light bulbs,
• smart televisions,
• smart windows,
• smart cars,
• smart roads,
• smart street lights, and much more!

All of this should be worrisome to most. When Canadians got the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) caught stealing information off of Canadian’s smart phones via wifi at airports. When Americans got the National Security Agency (NSA) caught spying on Americans and people around the world through various social media networks and has the capability to hack WiFi devices.

This should worry some people especially when you got America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) flat out admitting they will utilize smart appliances to spy on people if they have to. Google admitting they have spied on people by activating computer mics as far as back as 2006 for the purposes of claimed better advertisements. People should ask their selves “what business do these corporations and extensions of governments have to know so much personal information about myself?”

Essentially this will all be hooked up to the smart grid and a lot more smart technologies are going to be invented and released to add to the mix as the futures turns into the present.

Take a look at Samsung’s smart watches and wrist bands. They have the capability to monitor ones heart rate 24/7. The privacy of personal information about ones health and whatever else smart appliances can pick up on like what kind of food one eats (smart fridge) to what kind of laundry detergent they use (smart washer) etc, is at risk to hackers, corporations and extensions of the government.

Take a look at the Samsung smart televisions that have built in cameras. When the people have hidden agreements in Xbox Kinect cameras that enable third parties to turn on the camera at any given time, it’s not too hard to imagine the camera on the smart tv can be utilized for the same thing. We are heading towards a complete surveillance state where future generations might not even know what it’s like to have ‘true privacy’ because of these so called ‘smart technologies’.

Smart lightbulbs that one can control with their smart phone but also has capabilities of spying on you.

Now a days it’s hard to find camcorders or cameras that don’t have wifi capabilities. Imagine hackers, corporations or extensions of the government being able to peek at your private home made videos or pictures stored on your camera.

In 2012, Samsung released their transparent smart window. Yes, you read that right, a “touch screen” window that is hooked up to the internet. Samsung’s Transparent Window got a lot of attention at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Will the future consist of ‘smart glass windows’ to houses and buildings inside and outside that will be hooked up to the internet and have monitoring capabilities by the powers that be?

Take a look at this short video below to see how Samsung envisions their Smart Window and Display in the not-so-far-future below.

Just recently Terry Wilson of the C.A.N published an article about ‘smart roads’. Imagine in your mind the future trendy has their smart phone and/or smart watch on and leaves his/her house and gets into their smart car. All their smart appliances are all connected to each other, and also connected to his/her smart phone (or any other gadget). He/she turns on their smart car and drives off onto the smart road. The smart car, phone (and gadget) has GPS tracking, the road will most likely be hooked up to the electrical smart grid and will know when ever a car is on it. The smart car will pass by smart light poles and street lights that will most likely have licence plates scanners. As he/she gets to work enters the building to their workplace where the smart glass display windows are monitoring them by communicating with their smart phone/watch.

The future trendy will be tracked at all times. These smart technologies with the combination of sophisticated spy satellites in orbit above earth and also combined with the drones in the sky makes the future a scary surveillance reality.

Boycott these technologies if you care about the future.