Google wants to sneak into your room, patents relevant technology

Patent Details

Smart Home Technologies for eavesdropping

Google has filed several patents describing technologies of the Internet Smart home to badyze your lifestyle and your behavior at home.

The idea is the same, but instead of looking at what you are doing on the internet, the devices being considered would look at your home activity.

Next, he will use this information to serve ads based on your tastes, preferences, and other choices.

Patent No. 1

Smart Home System to Analyze Your Environment

The first patent describes a smart home system, possibly a camera-equipped camera, to badyze your environment , reported The Atlantic.

It would be useful to detect items in your personal space to set up your profile by determining your likes, likes and dislikes.

Next, it would cross all this information with your browsing history to indicate items such as where to shop or what to look for online.

Identification of the object

How would this technology badyze objects?

Technology capable of detecting articles has been described as an object identification system.

For example, when he detects a Will Smith t-shirt in your closet, the actor will be confirmed as a point of interest for the broadcast of the content.

Similarly, if the technician sees gadgets or expensive home items at home, he will keep you in a higher income category.

And, he can even identify audio signatures

Aside from bedroom objects, the technology detailed in the first patent could also collect audio signatures to badyze the tone of voice of people living in a household and confirm their identity, their age and gender.

Patent No. 2

In addition, there is a home movement monitoring system

The technology detailed in the second patent is even more frightening as it can boost the activity of your children .

Basically, it has been touted as a system that can monitor children and limit their behavior / movement.

He would use sophisticated sensors to check whether they use "foul language", broadcast objectionable content continuously, or access restricted areas of the home.

Application

How could the data extracted from this system be used?

According to the patent, the restrictions of this system could also be "based on certain remote vendor entries / facilitators / regulators / etc."

In this way, companies could exploit data from your home and use that information to offer rewards or punishments.

For example, health insurance companies could determine rates based on your eating habits or homeowners could use the same sensor data to determine who was going or going.

Possibilities

The possibilities are virtually endless

With such technology, Google could extract huge information from households, even if the device it develops does not have a camera.

He could collect auditory signatures to determine what a user does at what time.

For example, he could badyze the sound of a chair / keyboard to confirm that a user is working or a refrigerator door to confirm the activity of the kitchen.

Fortunately, there are only patents at this stage.

The proposed systems seem rather scary, but it should be noted that it is only patents at this stage. This means that Google has explored these ideas, but nothing indicates when or if they will actually materialize.