Invasion of Privacy: The Next Generation

from here and here

The mind-reading technology is still impractical right now, but it will only get better, smaller, and more affordable over time. That latter point is especially true if it goes down the path of so many other technologies and gets funding/subsidies from ad companies - because of course they want to know what you're thinking.

The future of telephone scams - "Powered By Google"

from here

I think this might actually be the real story behind why Google Duplicity-I-mean-Duplex was designed to trick people into thinking they were talking to a real person - because the people making it were too busy trying to see if they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

And I'm pretty sure this technology will eventually enable the automation of telephone scams, which won't be good for anybody (other than the scammers).

A Roomba with a view

from here and here

Selling data about the insides of people's homes seems pretty creepy if you ask me. What's next, selling photos from inside people's homes?