All Ears: Always-On Listening Devices Could Soon Be Everywhere

https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-ears-always-on-listening-devices-could-soon-be-everywhere-1531411250

by uptown • 8 years ago

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uptown• 8 years ago

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akeck• 8 years ago

How would this work legally in a two party consent state? Can a house guest sue for being recorded?

beagle3• 8 years ago

Maybe you would have to post a sign on the door saying "by entering this location you are hereby consenting to Amazoogapple recording you; If you disagree, please leave".

mindslight• 8 years ago

Right after you empty the dishwasher, put in soap. Then if the soap is still there, the dishes haven't yet been run. So easy, maybe you don't need to even consider buying that overpriced gimmicky crap that's just going to surveil you for its brief software-truncated lifespan.

Who the heck would want to always being turning down the music to utilize these devices anyway?

... I've been pondering the idea of a generalized replacement control board for say washers/dryers, with the primary goal to reestablish the expectation of user control over these things (and perhaps enable sane IoT rather than gimmick-based). Faced with the prospect of needing a new microwave and remembering how my blood boils when using the ones that can't even get the basic #-#-#-Go keypattern right, I'm seeing the angle there too. Perhaps in the future we'll just have to physically gut the control boards of appliances immediately after purchase similar to how we presently have to gut the software of new phones.

ARayOutOfBounds• 8 years ago

Big brother is listening... spooky thought, but definitely a possibility in the near future

All Ears: Always-On Listening Devices Could Soon Be Everywhere

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