If it were not enough that so many corporations and governments monitor and track our online business, now they use a tool for expanding their capacity for monitoring and collecting data, using voiceprint technology.
according to a study by the Associated Press, 65 million voice prints have been collected and stored on corporate databases and Government, including the US and Europe and Turkey's 10 million people voice prints have been stored. We find that astounding.
The people are quite understandably concerned that their privacy is seriously compromised. Voiceprint the harvest is another invasive way of collecting data, watching our movements, and monitoring our communications. Big brother is watching, even more than we realize!
Large companies, of course, are in favor of the voiceprint technology. Being able to recognize consumers by their voiceprint, as they move from store to store is huge money for them because they can see what products and services people are interested and where they spend their money. Thus, they not only do they encourage money with coupons or chocolate in exchange for our data, they can simply take our voiceprint! A win-win situation for them. Whoopee do!
Other proponents of the technology, are banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co who used the voiceprint to fight against fraud and identity theft which, although course, is a good thing. But Tech and privacy lawyer David Klein feels "there should be regulations on both the state and federal governing practices regarding the collection, use and sharing of that data so that we do not go further into the world of George Orwell. "
large banks, including US Bancorp and Barclays PLC are considering introducing voiceprint technology in the near future. Iain Hanlon, an executive of Barclays said: "The general feeling is that voice biometrics will be the de facto standard in the next two or three years," Scary
surveillance expertsDigital and groups.! of privacy are concerned how quickly this technology is growing. Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said that the technology could be used to find the location of a natural person, although " it was not designed for listening or tracking people, it could still identify them and associate them to a location ".
Unfortunately, the voiceprint technology is another way that governments and businesses can collect our data, and expand their snooping capabilities.
Every breath you take
Every move you make ...
I'll be watching you! - The Police
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