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Well said. Either SV is different than business is usual... or it's not. And if it's not (and not willing to self police to a higher ethical standard), then we
by ethbro 10y ago
Well said. Either SV is different than business is usual... or it's not.
And if it's not (and not willing to self police to a higher ethical standard), then we should really start asking whether we're comfortable with these companies having the amount of access to our lives they do.
Would you trust Walmart with an Echo type device in your house?
- tyingq 10y ago>Would you trust Walmart with an Echo type device in your house? Offtopic, but that's an odd example. I wouldn't trust WalMart to be fair to their employees, suppliers, etc. But, they aren't the company that comes to mind when I think "who would I least want to potentially listen in on me whenever they wanted?" The company I do worry about in that space does happen to sell an Echo type device...and it's not Amazon.
- M_Grey 10y agoWhat company would you trust with an Echo type device in your house? I think the entire proposition is insane given the state of the law.
- rdl 10y agoIn terms of "business model", clearly Apple is the one I'd trust the most, Google/FB the least, and Amazon in the middle. But I agree with laws the way they are, it's very problematic. Either the tech needs to change, or the law -- I have a lot more confidence we'll finally see a (not really re)-surgence in privacy protecting consumer tech.
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- Spooky23 10y agoWhat's different about Amazon vs Walmart? What makes them trustworthy? If you dig down a bit, you'll find that it's not much. There's nothing at all special about Silicon Valley companies with respect to ethics.
- ethbro 10y agoI was trying to find a well-known company to illustrate the difference in how we look at tech companies vs "non-tech" companies. For another example, if Comcast compiles user data, it's scummy. If Google does it, we might gripe about it a bit, but it's business as usual.