New web entertainment services have us spying on ourselves

Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music and provide information. (Amazon/TNS)

Fears of surrendering privacy to the Internet are nothing new. We used to fret about cookies tracking our browsing and credit card numbers slipping free of our control. 

But now that those concerns have been dealt with – it's funny because it's not remotely true! – new entertainment devices and services are giving us more sophisticated means of becoming public personages, whether we want to or not. And we are willingly ceding even more territory, in some cases even becoming our own prosecutors.