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Those are expensive. And their presence compromises your family's privacy.
by mac01021 8y ago
Those are expensive. And their presence compromises your family's privacy.
- Baeocystin 8y agoExactly. We were already hemorrhaging money, and skilled nursing care for even a few hours a week is incredibly expensive. Not to mention you now have a stranger in your home, and without going in to details, we caught some very unsavory behavior via IP Camera with one of the caregivers we'd hired early on. It's just an incredibly stressful time in a family's life, no matter how you cut it.
- feanaro 8y agoI'm afraid having Google's robot butlers around all the time wouldn't do wonders for privacy either.
- piyush_soni 8y agoBetter than an actual person though, at least for now.
- feanaro 8y agoIs it? The privacy effects of a person are fairly localised, while the effects of having a spying, data collection machine are potentially unbounded.
- mac01021 8y agoAre we saying Google's robot butlers won't work without an internet connection? That would severely diminish their value.
- feanaro 8y agoKnowing Google, they probably will work, for some definition of work. However, you'll get a lot of extremely convenient online-only features around which an ecosystem will be built, such that ever more people start turning it on and it stops being controversial. They'll also instruct you to connect them to the internet during the initial setup procedure. At first they'll promise they won't collect a lot of data and you'll always be able to opt out. However, increasingly more data will start getting collected, you'll start having a hard time finding the option to opt out and even if you manage to do it, the UI will progressively get more deceptive and annoying at trying to get you to turn it back on. Next thing you know, almost everyone has them connected, you're a weirdo if you don't and Google is even more powerful than before.