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Now hasn't started reading email now. Somebody gleefully mentioned to me several months back that Now reminds her of bills (due dates and amounts) automaticall

by 0xmohit 10y ago

Now hasn't started reading email now. Somebody gleefully mentioned to me several months back that Now reminds her of bills (due dates and amounts) automatically. Essentially by reading emails from gmail. I was also told that by evening it'd start telling by itself the approximate time it would take to reach home. For some such inputs are rich, for others scary.

honkhonkpants 10y ago
A computer program does not "read" your email in a meaningfully "scary" way.
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  The information thus gathered can certainly be utilized in ways that may be "scary". Most don't care anyways.
- lostlogin 10y ago
  Any thoughts on what would have happened if Snowdens bosses could see his bills? His airline tickets? What the machine does with the bills is the scary bit.
taneq 10y ago
For a third group, such inputs are rich if provided by an algorithm running locally, on your own personal data, whilst preserving your privacy. They're scary when they're the carrot used to persuade you to allow a full invasion of your personal life by an outside entity, which as a matter of course requires permission to store, search, aggregate, and use commercially all of the data that it finds.