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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #44230
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Internet of Things
Transcript:
NSA, GCHQ, 5I's you've just pointed out very powerfully represent an assault, total assault on privacy and assault on democracy violate laws of war. I want to ask you about the Internet of things. It can be a very depressing discussion, but as we all know, I think gathered here that in the last several years there's been an emerging public discussion about corporate intrusion into the Internet. So that sat Navs. Social media, new tools, like Amazon's and Alexa, are siphoning data on an unprecedented scale and of the most private kind and of the most intimate kind? And there are wits who say that you know the times coming when our fridges are going to be hacked by Russian or Chinese intelligence as a sort of, you know, symbol of this, I wonder what your take is on this Internet of things. It's part of our learning of the dimensions of surveillance and intrusion, the difficulty isn't with the Internet of things that it enables people to do things. It's not just repression. It's not just taking things away, but it incorporates, it sucks everybody into a system of total information control, don't you think?
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