Source: InfowarsPaul Joseph Watson
Six years ago we warned readers that Google was planning to use the
ambient background noise of a person’s environment to spy on their
activities in order to direct targeted advertising at them through
technological devices. That has now come to fruition with the search
engine giant filing a petition for “Advertising based on environmental
conditions.”
“As that title implies, it’s not just background sounds
that could be used to determine what adverts you seen on your mobile
phone. The patent also describes using ‘temperature, humidity, light and
air composition’ to produced targeted adverts,” reports the Daily Mail.
In other words, Google is going to spy on your private
conversations, music preferences, TV watching habits, your choice of
radio station, and whatever else is happening in your immediate
environment, in order to build a psychological profile of your entire
life.
The current patent relates to smart phones, but any Inter-connected device could ultimately be used for the same purpose.
Indeed, back in 2006 when we first reported on the issue,
Google was already finalizing plans to spy on an individual’s ambient
background environment by means of the microphone embedded in their
personal computer.
In an article entitled Government, Industry To Use
Computer Microphones To Spy On 150 Million Americans, we reported how
Google was “planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated
150 million-plus Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle
choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for
surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data
mining.”
Google’s efforts to spy on users via their cell phones
is part of the wider move towards the ‘Internet of things’ where
virtually every technological appliance will be connected to the web,
opening a pandora’s box of surveillance opportunities.
Given that the private industry is already licking its
lips at the commercial prospects for this technology, don’t be naive to
think that the state isn’t too far behind.
CIA Director David Petraeus recently lauded this
development as “transformational” because it would open up a world of
new opportunities for “clandestine tradecraft,” or in other words, make
it easier for intelligence agencies and governments to spy on you via
your dishwasher.
Petraeus said the emergence of so-called ‘smart’ devices
would “change our notions of secrecy,” allowing authorities to track
individuals via their household appliances.
“Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your
chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,”
you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can
intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to
adjust your living room’s ambiance,” reports Wired.
“Items of interest will be located, identified,
monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as
radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers,
and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet
using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going
to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing,
and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing,” Petraeus told attendees
at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com.
He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular
fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
