No, no, no this is not about selling junk to people. If you thought selling cheap junk to people was profitable, wait until you see what selling mass surveilla

No, no, no this is not about selling junk to people. If you thought selling cheap junk to people was profitable, wait until you see what selling mass surveillance to the government pays. Everyone that said, it's an Orwell problem to have pervasive "assistant" devices was right. Look how many billions NSA poured into scanning and indexing everyone's mails and calls in Utah. Now you have OP and a few days ago Amazon PR objected calling Echo a "microphone": all these dumbasses paid for these things and now it's really here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418854 We already know Eric Schmidt's Google is tight with the government, and look, they make home assistants also. https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/ https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close... https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/