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For some reason smart speakers give me pause but not a smartphone. A smartphone is kind of the same thing (microphones listening) when plugged in with the addit
by lancesells 7y ago
For some reason smart speakers give me pause but not a smartphone. A smartphone is kind of the same thing (microphones listening) when plugged in with the addition of a camera and a host of other sensors. I guess because a phone's main function is to not listen to us that makes the speakers much more worrisome to everyone?
Even something like an Apple Watch is the same thing with the addition of reading your vitals.
- fastball 7y agoI mean, the "main" function of a phone IS to listen to you. For phone calls.
- blub 7y agoThe main function of a phone is to make phone calls. In order to do that, it activates a microphone during the call. This is not the same as listening, never mind always listening. A home assistant must always listen in order to recognize the activation words.
- fastball 7y agoIf you don't trust home assistant vendors to not randomly send non-queries to the cloud, I'm not sure why you'd trust phone vendors to not have the microphone on when you haven't given it permission.
- blub 7y agoThe latter is more unlikely compared to the former, which is by design. Furthermore, at least on iOS Siri can be completely turned off through a configuration profile. This is a reasonable approach for someone whose thread model allows them to use a smartphone...