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It's like LastPass or GitHub Copilot collecting private data. It just goes against their business model to violate privacy. I'd be a lot more suspicious if it's
by muzani 5y ago
It's like LastPass or GitHub Copilot collecting private data. It just goes against their business model to violate privacy. I'd be a lot more suspicious if it's Meta/Facebook, because it's directly part of their business model.
- nicce 5y agoThe problem is that not every business is fully transparent about their business models nor we don’t know which state level actor is sometimes behind the ”accidental” data collection.
- djur 5y agoDo we have any examples so far of a state-level actor using data that was "accidentally" collected from users?
- smolder 5y agoYou're asking a silly question. States use data indiscriminately, whether it was "accidentally" gathered or not. Ultimately, it's not really accidentally gathered. There is pressure to over-collect.
- nicce 5y agoTechnically it is illegal at least in the U.S. to pressure for overcollecting the data. That is why I used the word ”accidentally”. However, in reality some companies might think in the end that it was their own idea.
- propogandist 5y agothey have a massive free tier that has yet to be monetized ads targeted to users based on conversations within ear shot of an always listening device sounds like a big money maker to me although I don't use zoom, something(s) is already doing this on my phone as I get targeted ads based on conversations I have, routinely ( typically within 45 mins) despite taking many precautions... some technology is already out there in production