The US National Intelligence Agency director James Clapper told that the internet of things devices can be used by the intelligence services. And These words made a big debate.
NSA’s largest social network monitoring, reorganizing Samsung’s smart TV users contract by adding substances and unauthorized listening to your voice by Chrome are actually the major developments shed light on these days.
Likewise unauthorized listening by Chrome,the smart devices in our lives that again questioned.But smart technology companies always defend themselves being user-oriented. The intelligence services need to work on everything in the information-gathering that could threaten national security and does not hesitate to say that it extends to every device connected to the internet.
‘In the future, intelligence services might use the internet of things for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment’, says James Clapper, US director of national intelligence. To give a few examples, Fitbit and Dropcam in the case of services data has been requested as evidence in various cases. Your child may even spy in your home with a connected to the Internet doll.
In short, there is a linear correlation between increasing internet connected devices and probability of unauthorized listening. Because cyber hackers also use these methods like intelligence agencies.