The price of modern technology.

Try researching for a new car, a television, a camera, or a new home theater system.  The result is that within hours there will be advertising popping up on your smartphone or computer  for that very same product.

Just yesterday I was researching for a new home theater system.  Today I saw multiple ads for those systems across the top of my screen and just below the Google search window.  Six months ago I was searching for a new camera bag.  There were multiple offers for bags from different retailers.

Adam Levin blogs on Huffington Post that there are 9 Household Items That Could Be Spying on You.

Which of these do you have in your house?

• Your television (thanks to the internet)
• Your Cable Box (your provider knows what you ar watching)
• Your Dishwasher, Clothes Dryer, Toaster, Clock Radio and Remote Control (thanks to smartphone interface)
• Your Lights (thanks to the power  company’s new monitoring system)
• Your Heat an A/C (thanks to The Nest thermostat that tracks homeowners’ heat and air-conditioning habits)
•  Security alarms (those services know when you’re not at home)
• Insulin Pumps and Pacemakers (White Hat hacker Barnaby Jack proved he could kill a diabetic person from 300 feet away by ordering an insulin pump to deliver fatal doses of insulin. This summer he announced he could hack pacemakers and implanted defibrillators)
• Smartphones (that same technology that provides mapping directions also tells those with access where you are)