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Wow, we've come a long way from the outrage over the Kinect supposedly "quietly listening all the time" to these products now being the next great thing. What
by skc 10y ago
Wow, we've come a long way from the outrage over the Kinect supposedly "quietly listening all the time" to these products now being the next great thing.
What happened?
- leblancfg 10y agoGood point. Is anyone aware of a FOSS implementation of "personal audio assistants"? Because the Orwellian creepy factor is way up there.
- colinramsay 10y agohttps://jasperproject.github.io/ https://jasperproject.github.io/ However the strength of something like Amazon's devices is the ecosystem and the microphones that they ship with, which are expensive to buy separately.
- _-david-_ 10y agoI haven't tried it but there's this: https://github.com/MycroftAI https://github.com/MycroftAI
- api 10y agoUnfortunately the maxim continues to prove true: "nobody cares about privacy or security." I've come to the conclusion that technical loss of privacy is inevitable because customers don't care, and that when the you know what does eventually hit the fan the problem will have to be solved with regulation. There will be HIPAA/PCI type laws around home audio, location data, etc., and a renegotiation of wiretap and search and seizure laws. There may also be some legal limits on private data collection and retention. Of course malicious hackers and secret parts of governments won't obey these laws. We are in some uncharted waters.
- my123 10y agoMicrosoft pioneered it a bit too early... No(t enough) people care about privacy.