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I would love for that to be the case, but I really doubt that it would be. No one wants a government tracking device on them at all times, but I don't see peopl
by x1798DE 10y ago
I would love for that to be the case, but I really doubt that it would be. No one wants a government tracking device on them at all times, but I don't see people abandoning cell phones en masse because the government can get a warrant for your location data from cell phone data towers and/or Google.
- cgriswald 10y agoI see a huge difference between a device that records its location (not mine, even if the two are largely correlated) and one that records the things I say in my own home. A cell phone can be used to record your voice or even video, but there are technical, legal, and logistical hurdles to cross to enable that functionality for a given phone. Alexa, in contrast, is always on with the technical and logistical hurdles already leapt and the legal one a fairly low bar if Amazon loses here. I can definitely see people abandoning a brand of phone that features always on audio and/or video recording that can later be used by law enforcement (although the frequency with which gf uses snapchat, maybe not...)