You Read It Here First: Google’s ‘Ambient Background’ Spy Tech

‘Internet of things’ also a surveillance tool for authorities

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, March 23, 2012

Six years ago we warned readers that Google was planning to use the ambient background noise of a person’s environment to spy on their activities in order to direct targeted advertising at them through technological devices. That has now come to fruition with the search engine giant filing a petition for “Advertising based on environmental conditions.”

“As that title implies, it’s not just background sounds that could be used to determine what adverts you seen on your mobile phone. The patent also describes using ‘temperature, humidity, light and aircomposition’ to produced targeted adverts,” reports the Daily Mail.

In other words, Google is going to spy on your private conversations, music preferences, TV watching habits, your choice of radio station, and whatever else is happening in your immediate environment, in order to build a psychological profile of your entire life.

The current patent relates to smart phones, but any Inter-connected device could ultimately be used for the same purpose.

Indeed, back in 2006 when we first reported on the issue, Google was already finalizing plans to spy on an individual’s ambient background environment by means of the microphone embedded in their personal computer.

In an article entitled Government, Industry To Use Computer Microphones To Spy On 150 Million Americans, we reported how Google was “planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.”

Google’s efforts to spy on users via their cell phones is part of the wider move towards the ‘Internet of things’ where virtually every technological appliance will be connected to the web, opening a pandora’s box of surveillance opportunities.

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Given that the private industry is already licking its lips at the commercial prospects for this technology, don’t be naive to think that the state isn’t too far behind.

CIA Director David Petraeus recently lauded this development as “transformational” because it would open up a world of new opportunities for “clandestine tradecraft,” or in other words, make it easier for intelligence agencies and governments to spy on you via your dishwasher.

Petraeus said the emergence of so-called ‘smart’ devices would “change our notions of secrecy,” allowing authorities to track individuals via their household appliances.

“Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance,” reports Wired.

“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing,” Petraeus told attendees at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel.

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Comment by Robert Carobene on March 23, 2012 at 6:19pm: Yes the bible does say that we are not from this world!

Comment by suzie on March 23, 2012 at 5:53pm: the bible says we are aliens in this world.. funny maybe we are the aliens

Comment by suzie on March 23, 2012 at 5:52pm: I think it will get really interesting there are really smart hackers and they will fight the beast.. make war with him and be a royal pain in the a$$ of the devil himself ... lol these warriors will have fun and serve good all at the same time.. The one amazing thing we are privy to God allowed us to know who wins and that is the home court advantage.. The one thing the beast cannot have is our eternity and our glorified life and that drives him nutz.. there is so much more than this life but while we are here we have our parts to play indeed!

Comment by Robert Carobene on March 23, 2012 at 5:34pm: The beast system is upon us very soon and "who will be able to make war with the beast". Its getting to that point. Why do you think Bill Gates wanted a computer in every house besides him becoming the richest man or second now in the world but that's not really true since we all know who runs the show but anyhow they want a computer device of some sort so they can control that the name of the game!

Comment by suzie on March 23, 2012 at 5:29pm: Not almost .... They will do what ever it takes and that includes accepting and allowing and i would say even encouraging any kind of perversion to be taught to there kids in school as normal. Things that even by today's standards are still considered taboo& bad.. There will be no restriction of any kind allowed if it is sexually stimulating to anyone. That would be intolerant! If They say you can only eat this or that they will do it. The training has begun and as the addiction worsens there grip gets stronger. They want compliance as peacefully as possible. They want slaves to line up for there death vaccine willingly just as docile and compliant as the jews were who were led to the showers. If they say undress you will do it. If they say tv's have camera's now well OK if your not doing anything wrong you shouldn't complain. These techno devices are little idols in the hands of the slaves who worship them and as they worship the created rather than the creator they will be ripe for the worshiping of the BEAST And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and this mark will be the ultimate anything this is where the rubber meets the road because even if you do not believe in God you will have heard the Gospel and either accepted it or rejected it and heard this warning:“If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.” Revelation 14:9,10 People can lol all they want but there is only one way out of this mess ...

Comment by Robert Carobene on March 23, 2012 at 4:45pm: The new generation is Generation Z for Zombie. Take away there I pad and they will go crazy and they will be going into shock mode. You see the Illuminati want us to get addicted to the Internet pcs i pads phones tablets Androids and then they will restrict it and it will cause confusion and panic and withdrawal and to get it back people will do almost anything for it.

Comment by suzie on March 23, 2012 at 3:36pm: This is a techno fiasco.. how can you hide a listening chip in a dishwasher or fridge if we know about it then it is not a secret. Why don't they just land the alien space ship on the white house lawn and get it over with.. Why hide anything anymore it would seem the sheeple are addicted to it already.. Just try to take an ipad away from a kid they immediately go through withdrawals and panic mode .. The populous are slaves to it already and would like the rat on crack STARVE rather than give it all up.. The devil is in the details i guess and BTW: they don't give a crap about the 4th amendment and are counting on american not even knowing what a 4th amendment is... DUH as the druling zombies cry for more brains..........

Comment by Meglamaniac on March 23, 2012 at 2:56pm: what happened to the 4th Amendment?

Comment by Robert Carobene on March 23, 2012 at 12:57pm: Google will listen to your background mic on your computer to target ads but that is not what they really want to. They want to do is eavesdrop in your home!

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