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Or to put it a little simpler: Way fewer units would've been sold if consumers knew third world contractors would be listening to their private home conversatio
by ben_jones 7y ago
Or to put it a little simpler: Way fewer units would've been sold if consumers knew third world contractors would be listening to their private home conversations. If the way you make your meat is messy, you have an obligation to share that at the dinner table if you are a good actor.
- safog 7y agoWhy does it matter if it's Americans listening to it vs third world contractors? Also Google and Amazon are a large American companies that mostly try to do the right thing in terms of user privacy. I'd be more concerned about the random IoT microwaves and fridges made by a small company in China or Japan with their own assistant features built in sending audio to god knows where. Atleast I can reasonably trust the wakeword implementations for Alexa and Home, you can't even trust than with other h/w. It again comes back to, yes, researchers listen to a carefully chosen random selection of audio clips and they're not really targeting a single user. It's impossible to explain that nuance in marketing material.
- malvosenior 7y ago> Also Google and Amazon are a large American companies that mostly try to do the right thing in terms of user privacy. Google has an atrocious record when it comes to user privacy. They're the people who put a hidden microphone in Nest thermostats for instance.