The House That spied On Me
Feb. 12th, 2018 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osewalrusOr: Why is Osewalrus So Bitter . . .
This is a pretty good article that describes someone's Smart House experience from both the user perspective and that of a techie friend who was monitoring all the information transmitted out of the house.
https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852
As the article relates, the techie friend monitoring the home server saw pretty much everything. A view shared by the subscriber's ISP exactly as I and my colleagues described back when we did the FCC proceeding on privacy in 2016.
I shall set aside the bitterness at enduring the snotty mockery of industry shills and Republican members of Congress and Republican Regulators (the shills were Democrats, but you had to actually pay them) to focus instead on my bitterness that while I was out on sabbatical Congress passed a resolution of disapproval eliminating the regulations we pushed through the FCC. Here is the pull quote.
"I had the same view of Kashmir’s house that her Internet Service Provider (ISP) has. After Congress voted last year to allow ISPs to spy on and sell their customers’ internet usage data, we were all warned that the ISPs could now sell our browsing activity, or records of what we do on our computers and smartphones. But in fact, they have access to more than that. If you have any smart devices in your home—a TV that connects to the internet, an Echo, a Withings scale—your ISP can see and sell information about that activity too. With my “iotea” router I was seeing the information about Kashmir and her family that Comcast, her ISP, could monitor and sell."
This is a pretty good article that describes someone's Smart House experience from both the user perspective and that of a techie friend who was monitoring all the information transmitted out of the house.
https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852
As the article relates, the techie friend monitoring the home server saw pretty much everything. A view shared by the subscriber's ISP exactly as I and my colleagues described back when we did the FCC proceeding on privacy in 2016.
I shall set aside the bitterness at enduring the snotty mockery of industry shills and Republican members of Congress and Republican Regulators (the shills were Democrats, but you had to actually pay them) to focus instead on my bitterness that while I was out on sabbatical Congress passed a resolution of disapproval eliminating the regulations we pushed through the FCC. Here is the pull quote.
"I had the same view of Kashmir’s house that her Internet Service Provider (ISP) has. After Congress voted last year to allow ISPs to spy on and sell their customers’ internet usage data, we were all warned that the ISPs could now sell our browsing activity, or records of what we do on our computers and smartphones. But in fact, they have access to more than that. If you have any smart devices in your home—a TV that connects to the internet, an Echo, a Withings scale—your ISP can see and sell information about that activity too. With my “iotea” router I was seeing the information about Kashmir and her family that Comcast, her ISP, could monitor and sell."
