IDG Contributor Network: Why the new President Obama chatbot on Facebook Messenger is so alarming
This is going to get interesting.
President Obama -- ostensibly through The White House and his administration and staff, natch -- now has a personal chatbot on Facebook Messenger. You can ask a question like “how many steps do you do per day using your FitBit?” or “Can you send me a selfie?” and the bot will parse out your question, confirm a few things...and then proceed to create a security nightmare for you that could prove to be the worst thing Facebook has done in their existence to betray user privacy.
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