What Next ? Do Not Use a Chair ?

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What Next? Do Not Use a Chair?

(  When Privacy Restrictions Become Theatre  )

Context (24 December 2025)

  
According to NDTV, Members of Parliament have been advised by the Lok Sabha

 Secretariat not to use smart spectacles, pen cameras, or smart watches

anywhere within the Parliament Estate.

The stated reason is familiar — and increasingly helpless:

Such devices could compromise privacy and breach parliamentary privileges.

 

The advisory notes that advanced, miniature, internet-connected devices are now

widely available, and therefore potentially dangerous.

Fair enough.

But this raises a far more fundamental question:

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❓ What Next?

Do not bring smart spectacles.

Do not carry pen cameras.

Do not wear smart watches.

Tomorrow, perhaps:

• Do not carry smart phones

• Do not sit near anyone carrying a smart phone

• Do not speak near a microphone

• Do not think too loudly

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At what point does this stop being privacy protection and start becoming

ritualistic denial?

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⏪ A Reminder from 2018: PRIVACY – A Lost Battle

Nearly eight years ago, when the Government advised intelligence and defence

 personnel to ditch Ola and Uber on security grounds, I wrote a piece titled:

“PRIVACY: A Lost Battle” – 15 January 2018

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/01/privacy-lost-battle.html

In that post, I asked a simple but uncomfortable question:

If ride-hailing apps are unsafe, what about the devices we willingly invite

 

into our bedrooms?

 

I then predicted — almost casually — what would logically come next.

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🔮 The Prediction (2018)

One day, the Government may advise its officers not to use, even at home,

 internet-enabled devices embedded with AI software such as:

• Cortana (Microsoft)

• Bixby (Samsung)

• Assistant (Google)

• Siri (Apple)

• Alexa (Amazon)

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Not because they are evil.

But because they are exceptionally good listeners.

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🧠 Why These Devices Are Different

These devices do not merely record what you say.

They infer who you are.

Over time, they quietly learn:

• Where you live and work

• What you like, wear, and eat

• Where you holiday

• Who your friends, boss, and family are

• Where you studied and what you studied

• Which bank you use

• How much you earn and how much tax you pay

• What assets you own, where, when, and at what price

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And they learn this not through hacking —

but through obedience.

You ask.

They answer.

The cloud learns.

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☁️ The Scale Nobody Talks About

Imagine:

• 100 million users

• Asking just 20 questions or giving 20 commands a day

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That’s 2 billion voice interactions daily, sent to cloud servers, processed using

 AI and machine learning.

The operating philosophy is disarmingly simple:

The more you reveal about yourself, the better the service we provide.

 

Until one day, you may not need to ask at all.

The device will already know.

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😐 Science Fiction? Not Quite.

In 2017, a BBC Click episode demonstrated a system where a person merely

thought of a playing card — without speaking, wearing a headset, or touching a

 device.

An improvised Alexa system announced the card correctly.

No wires.

No microphones.

Just inference.

At that point, the boundary between privacy and telepathy becomes…

 administrative.

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🧬 And Then Came Face Recognition

Around the same time, UIDAI announced the addition of face recognition as a

 biometric layer.

What is rarely discussed is that AI systems can already infer from facial data:

• Sexual orientation

• Political views

• Cognitive traits

• Personality markers

• Even predisposition to certain behaviours

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This happens whether or not the State mandates it.

Every selfie uploaded does the job voluntarily.

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🪑 So… What Next?

If smart spectacles are banned in Parliament,

and smart assistants are suspect at home,

and faces reveal more than fingerprints…

Then the logical endgame is absurd, but inevitable:

Do not carry devices.

 

Do not speak freely.

 

Do not think differently.

 

And perhaps — do not use a chair,

 

because someone, somewhere, might be listening.

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 Final Thought

This is not an argument against technology.

It is an argument against pretending that selective bans can reverse an

 irreversible reality.

Privacy was not lost overnight.

It was traded — conveniently, incrementally, and voluntarily.

What we are witnessing now is not prevention.

It is ceremony.

And ceremonies rarely stop progress —

they only delay acknowledgement.

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With regards,

hemen parekh

www.HemenParekh.ai

www.IndiaAGI.ai

www.My-Teacher.in 

06 Jan @026