I've got two more $20 Bunnings vouchers. That's $40 worth.
Whaddya got?
Use one on a set of these:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/what-did-you-buy-today-post-your-latest-purchase!/msg2079445/#msg2079445
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/what-did-you-buy-today-post-your-latest-purchase!/msg2079445/#msg2079445Here's a good link... eevBlog was having a random bit of PMS and broke yours.
Tried to do the same to me too, but I cheerfully
thwarted the little gremlins...
*cackles out loud*
The problem is the TOS... you GIVE SOME MACHINE the right to listen to you... every minute of every day. The recordings are subject to subpoena, legally admissible in court. From there, a fuxxoring lawyer can have their way with you. Cuss out your kids, bitch at some POS politician on TV, say "I hate chinese" (food), it's all stored on someone else's server for fuckifyouknowhowlong.
It's bad enough they track you everywhere on the internet. Letting them add a physical location with the ability to eavesdrop at will to that datastream is just foolish, especially when you know just how easy it is for anybody from ICE snoopers to russian hackers to intercept that datastream.
Yes, in principle you have exactly the same thing with any mobile phone... but you can turn that OFF. There are a lot of safeguards being forced on phone manufacturers to make it so you have to opt-in to such services. Once you accept the TOS of a prepackaged surveillance device, you can't undo it. Even if you try, there's a record of you at some point accepting those terms which can always be used against you.
mnem
Its a bit late to be worried about that when in the UK alone it is claimed that 85% of adult population use or own a smartphone which will split into 2 camps of devices with precisely the same kind of surveillance device built-in taking the form either Siri or Google listening into your conversations and not even mention the many millions of Windows 10 users with Microsoft's "Cortana" also listening in and reporting back, and billions of CCTV cameras tracking us in the street, shops and public buildings, Big Brother is already upon us. Lets make it work a bit for us is my motto now https://www.consultancy.uk/news/14113/uk-smartphone-penetration-continues-to-rise-to-85-of-adult-population 
Edit.
In the US it is 95% with a cellphone and 77% with a smartphone, both of which are trackable and smartphones constantly listening in your conversations. 
http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/
What about all the tablets running either Android or OS??
That's all just another facet of the same old "Everybody else is doing it" argument; making an excuse for not bothering, and I really expected better of you.
We're talking about the difference between "Can they possibly fuck me" vs "Plastering a
FUCK ME! sign on your back and volunteering to grab your ankles with a cheerful
'Here's some butter to go widdat!' ".
You can't function in today's world without a PC AND smartphone-type device. There are a lot of things you CAN do to make it so corporate entities HAVE TO BREAK THE LAW to surveill you. You CAN disable Cortana. You can disable MS accounts and use only local accounts on your PC/tablet/phone.
You can NOT leave cameras/microphones plugged into a PC that faces the internet. You can opt out of all those "services" on your phone and PC that make YOU the product. You can stop using moron-magnets like FuckBook, Poonterest and Twit; they're just a massive timesink anyways. You can flush Chrome down the toilet. Don't share your fucking phone number on the inTardNet.
Hint:
If it's a "Social Networking" service, YOU are the product. And YOUR TIME is the currency of the domain.
Of course there's always a way "they" can break into your device. That's completely different from willingly allowing your device to broadcast surveillance directly to the internet.
If we DON'T keep pressuring them to make these changes, NOTHING will change. The only way to apply that pressure is to demand those options, and USE them.
To do that, you have to use the essential products of the modern world, even if they're flawed. Being privacy-savvy is part of the "cost of entry" into the modern world. That requires being constantly vigilant against, and not using, "services and devices" that are non-essential, and it requires locking down truly essential services as much as you can.
It also requires that you be arsed to educate yourself on the difference.mnem
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