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> People buy crap like Amazon echo left and right People know the Amazon echo contains a microphone. > have been carrying little computers with microphones an
by ncallaway 8y ago
> People buy crap like Amazon echo left and right
People know the Amazon echo contains a microphone.
> have been carrying little computers with microphones and an internet connection around all day for even longer
People know that their phones contains a microphone.
Surely the difference of being able to make an informed choice is still significant?
> I might be an asshole for it and rightly so get down voted, but I really feel schadenfreude from this story
I don't understand the schadenfreude here. Because some people make privacy choices that you disagree with, then we should take pleasure when companies stop presenting a choice at all?
I guess I just fundamentally don't understand how you can equate the two categories of products together.
In one category people make a knowing choice. In the other category they do not, and the company has outright lied to them to prevent them from making a knowing choice.
- ehsankia 8y agoI don't understand the shadenfreude either, but for the opposite reason. I think most people who have Nest products also are in the Google ecosystem, and are probably happy that they now have a Google Home for free. Considering half of the other Nest products contain microphones already, I don't think anyone who truly is worried about this stuff would've gotten a Nest ecosystem to start with. I agree, it's important to have all the facts so you can make informed decision, but this specific case has been way overblown, mostly by people who don't use Nest nor ever will. Almost anyone who's outraged probably would've never bought the product anyway.
- justicezyx 8y agoWhat's the point of arguing who made the arguments, when we are debating how much validity do the arguments have.