Sony has announced that it will allow Playstation users to record in-game voice chats so players can snitch on each other for mean words said during private conversations. Yes, really. The game console’s latest update forces users to waive their privacy rights, allowing others to report them and get their accounts banned for speech violations. “Following this update, users are seeing a notification... 

Amazon releases smart device, called Amazon Echo, that will be able to constantly bug all the conversations held in the house. The approximately 12-inch-tall, 3-inch-wide black cylindrical device is part microphone, part computer, that can hear you from anywhere in the room. “I can have the water running, I can be cooking, the TV can be on in the back room, and she still can hear me,”... 

Samsung’s new global privacy policy for its line of Smart TVs states that a user’s personal conversations will be recorded by the device’s microphone and transmitted to third parties. A 46-page privacy policy which is now included in all newly purchased Samsung Smart TVs states that voice recognition technology “may capture voice commands and associated texts” in order to “improve the...