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The second two examples I can get onboard with. But the Alexa example? Throw the thing out the window. Is it really so useful that it’s worth having a separate

• WalterBright 7y ago
  If/when I become bedridden, I imagine Alexa would be quite useful. Until then, no, I'll settle for heaving my sorry carcass out of the chair and pushing a button instead.
• atoav 7y ago
  Having an Alexa and trying to maintain a positive feeling about privacy by spoofing it showcases one of the fundamental conflicts of our time: they want you to give up the rights yourself. Of course they will never tell you the full extent of what happens to your data or inform you in clear terms about changes — they just give you enough so you can lie to yourself about it probably not beeing soo bad. In my eyes one of the few solutions you really have is to DIY these things, but while this has the pro of teaching you a lot, it costs time, patience and requires skill levels not everybody might have just to end up with something that might work okayish (depending on skill and time invested). This is why I believe this has to be a law thing. Just like in other areas you can safely assume certain product standards (e.g. you can buy food in the supermarket and it won’t contain hard drugs that make you addicted) and these kinds of guarantuees need to exist for digital services as well. There needs to be a clear standard for what they are allowed to do and what not without me explicitly voiding those assumptions.