Your Favorite Team May Be Spying On You

Everybody is watching:

The suit says that the snooping program started as a way to sell merchandise and ticket upgrades because the Warriors wanted to know when fans were on Warrior-owned property, and how long they stayed there. The app tracked that information through audio “beacons” that played through special transmitters in their arena and stores, the suit says, according to The Daily Beast. The app listened for the beacons and then sent customized ads to the user’s phone.

But according to the lawsuit, the app did not stop when the fans left Warriors-owned property, and instead, constantly listened in and recorded conversations, even when fans weren’t using the app, reports The Daily Beast.

What is scary is how the amount of technology around us that is technically capable of capturing conversations, sensitive data, and imagery is growing every day. I suspect there will come a time where there will be so many microphones and cameras around us, on TV’s, laptops, cell phones, digital assistants, house phones, cars, GPS, Bluetooth headsets, climate control systems, refrigerators, coffee makers, and everything else – all of which is going to be voice-activated for convenience and connected to the internet to get regular software updates, that securing them all will be impossible. Probably the cheaper things, like voice activated, variable cushioning sneakers will be Chinese made, with nearly zero security installed. At the same time, the number of people out there snooping will grow exponentially, because once some people begin grabbing that spook-like advantage, everyone will need it to even the playing field.

Private eyes, government, industrial espionage, bored network systems guys who figure out how to listen to random houses using their company’s hardware to pass the time, teenagers who downloaded kits to hack into intelligent voice-activated light systems in homes so they could hop from one home’s IP to another listening to what is going on inside, political espionage, fraudsters, identity thieves, and more we can’t even imagine. Spying will be everywhere, and when you are spied on, the urge will be to spy back. Neighbors will be pointing thru-wall radar and thermal imaging cameras at each other’s houses, aghast that their neighbor is looking right back at them through their wall as they are looking at him through his.

I see a very hostile, very low-trust society emerging at some point, at least where people live around each other – assuming the society doesn’t collapse long before then from the economic mess or a pandemic.

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