OK, throw this into the mix: many of you reading this have smartphones which are voice controlled, and for which voice control is activated at all times. In the case of Google, that processing <i>must</i> take place on Google's centralised servers. Siri may or may not do centralised processing (and can operate in standalone modes). Microsoft's Cortana, Facebook's "M" (IIRC) and Amazon's Aero are all various stylings of "Stasi in a Glade form factor", as Maciej Czeglowski so memorably put it.[1]<p>Voice stores distressingly cheaply in terms of space, and with the Internet of (broken) Things (that spy on you), odds of finding yourself surrounded by microphones in the most unexpected locations,[2] controlled by a wide variety of quite probably competing interests.[3] And if they cannot find what they're looking for in the surveillance tape itself, they'll simply manufacture their own evidence using your own phonemes[4] and video.[5]<p>________________________________<p>Notes:<p>1. <a href="https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/732985370204233728" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/732985370204233728</a><p>2. <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/3097029/government-surveillance-in-san-francisco-hidden-microphones-planted-by-fbi-at-bus-stops-under-rocks/" rel="nofollow">http://www.inquisitr.com/3097029/government-surveillance-in-...</a><p>3. <a href="http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/09/cory-doctorowthe-privacy-wars-are-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/" rel="nofollow">http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/09/cory-doctorowth...</a><p>4. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/hacking-forgeries/499775/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/hackin...</a><p>5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk</a>