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To be fair... If you carry around a smart phone or have a smart watch or a laptop you're at just as much risk. The ring is just one more device.
by AlwaysRock 4y ago
To be fair... If you carry around a smart phone or have a smart watch or a laptop you're at just as much risk. The ring is just one more device.
- ubermonkey 4y agoWell, no, not exactly. The ring is an always-on camera. My phone is not that. My phone may leak some information about me, and its basic job (cell phone) provides a record of location data, but that's not the same thing as forcibly making a home security device into part of a police state panopticon.
- CursedUrn 4y agoAre you sure your phone microphone isn't always on? At the very least your voice assistant is listening all the time to detect the trigger word (does this send the voice to the cloud for AI assisted detection?). Also if you search for articles about Ultrasonic Beacons, they imply adware tech is listening all the time too.
- SoftTalker 4y agoI disabled voice assistant and trigger word on my android. I hate talking to machines.
- Handytinge 4y agoIt's wild to me you think someone using the phrase "police state panopticon" would have an always on voice assistant enabled.
- ubermonkey 4y agoI am, in part because I don't use the trigger word functionality.
- ensignavenger 4y agoMy smart phone is not recording video all the time and uploading it to somebody else's computer. It does send location pings to the cell tower when turned on... However, I can easily turn my smart phone off, or leave it home or somewhere else. Security cameras and thermostats and refrigerators aren't so easy to just turn off.
- AlwaysRock 4y agoIt's listening and recording audio at all time.
- Handytinge 4y agoThere are billions of smart phones out there, and hundreds of thousands of technical minds both working at the companies who make them, and owning and checking them for these things. Please provide a singular credible source for your statement.