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Another aspect to the problem is that honoring privacy as a human right is a social issue, not a technology issue. The place to work on solving it (and, like a
by Frondo 11y ago
Another aspect to the problem is that honoring privacy as a human right is a social issue, not a technology issue.
The place to work on solving it (and, like all social issues, it won't be "solved," just "solved for now") is in the public and political spheres. We need to talk about this. We need to have the conversations that describe "what does privacy look like" and "how can we get the benefits from these gadgets while protecting our human rights".
Right now, no one's talking about a world in which you can have your cell phone listening to your conversations, while ensuring that private companies and government agencies can't make use of that willy-nilly. The place where those restrictions have to happen is in the laws we need to develop to keep them all in check.
We can't go back to a primitive, disconnected world, but right now, no one's leading us forward either.
- CaptSpify 11y ago> The place where those restrictions have to happen is in the laws we need to develop to keep them all in check. IMO we need that, but we also can't rely on that. Things like the NSA have shown that the laws don't really matter. Yes, we should be striving for those laws, but we should also not depend on them, when they can so easily be ignored.
- nitrogen 11y agoThere is a technological aspect, and that's putting the voice processing back into the device itself. We can still get the benefit of mass machine learning on failed voice samples by asking users to submit the failed sample only, playing it back for them so they know what is being sent, and deleting the sample once it has been processed. Then an updated speech model can be sent to the device. Or, just do the retraining on the device, too.