Tucker: Google Dreams of Controlling Your Family

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CARLSON: "We’ve been telling you months now for the growing power of the big tech companies whose brand surveillance capitalism has come to shape our politics and culture. In ways many people don’t receive. Let me give you a specific example of that, looking into the near future and a terrifying illustration of the control of these companies seek over our daily lives. We recently reviewed several patents filed by Google. We describe them, ask yourself if you are comparable giving this much power to unelected technocrats who you’ve never met. In the first filed in December 2016, Google envisions how it could send you personalized advertising based on what a camera observes in your home. An illustration that Google submitted to the federal government, the patent office, and camera in your bedroom sees a “Godfather” novel on your bed and uses that to steer you to watching the movie. If you think that’s creepy, prepare yourself. It gets a lot creepier. In another patent application in 2016, Google imagines how it can take control of your parenting, the relationship to your children. Google’s smart home system can detect children in your liquor cabinet or in their parents bedroom. They quote, “When Mr. Witt is occurring deliver a verbal warning.” A hypothetical child called Google’s smart home system can detect children in your liquor cabinet or in their parents bedroom. They quote, “When Mr. Witt is occurring deliver a verbal warning.” A hypothetical child called Benjamin, Google’s cameras would be watching Benjamin at all times. Using electronics, using information to sell things at some point because of the whole point, Google. The same patent also discusses how the smart home could coach families on areas of improvement. If a family does not spend enough time together, eating together, in Google’s estimation, Google might school them and suggest they set a goal in eating more often together. That is Google’s description. Not ours. We are assuming it was a person, not a robot, replied this way. “We filed patent applications on a variety of ideas our employees come up with. Some of the mature into a product or. Some don’t.” In other words, don’t worry. We aren’t spying on you, next to it we just have a patent on it. Of course, tech is also dangerous because it’s deeply addictive. More than anything, it’s deeply addictive. A group of early Google, Facebook employees are teaming up to check the companies they helped create. John Harris is a former Google employee, heads of the new group, the center for humane technology."