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Originally Posted by haertig
And for that matter, do not use a smart TV, do not ride in a new car, or even allow guests into your house if they have smart phones with voice assistants (all smart phones do). All these things have the capability to record you and send a recording up to the internet. It doesn't even have to be in your house. Do not even casually speak to another person if that person has a smart phone on them. This pretty much means you cannot talk to anybody. But if you're going to ban voice assistant devices from your home because of privacy/security concerns, you are being a total hypocrite (or just ignorant) if you speak anywhere near someone with a smart phone in their pocket. Because that smart phone has a voice assistant in it, and you have no idea how the person you are talking to has configured it. They probably didn't even configure it at all - they just left it at default settings which are pretty much wide open. Chances are, they didn't even know you could configure it, or even worse - that it was even present on their smart phone in the first place.
Unfortunately, you can't escape this nightmare simply by banning these devices from your home and then sitting there smugly saying "I'm good". You aren't. You are surrounded by listening devices throughout your day. Not just yours - other people's as well.
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Oh I am definitely of the tin foil hat brigade and I'm not afraid to say that, big corp has proven time and again throughout the last what 100 years they can't be trusted so it would seem prudent to at least try and protect yourself from their snooping, but then again maybe not if it doesn't bother you, that's a decision everyone makes individually.
Saying someone is a hypocrite banning listening devices
in their own home just because other people might have them on their person when you are out and about is just silly, A) this would mean whatever it picks up is something you are saying in public so therefore you can't reasonably expect privacy and B) You don't get to choose whether other people have these devices or not, when out in public you just assume they are around, C) It's not your device so you haven't signed up to anything so that device doesn't know who you are.
It's an interesting time at the moment, 20 - 30 years ago people would question regularly why businesses wanted information, if you went into a store and signed up for something it wasn't uncommon for people to say why do you need this or that information, or it would say on the form this information is optional (there's always been those that have been happy to give out their information willy nilly of course) but now it seems people are tripping over each other to throw that information at some of the biggest and least trustworthy corporations on the planet, because a little black box with a shiny light asks them too.
As I said if that makes me a tinfoil hat wearer I don't mind and if what I think is wrong then no ham done, but if I there's any truth to what I (and lots of others) suspect then that could be a huge problem for lots of people.
Just to complete my tin foil hat persona in peoples eyes; I don't own or have in the house; a smart phone, smart watch, smart speaker or smart tv don't use Google, Amazon or Apple, have an older car with no AI or tech (apart from a CD player) and I use Linux with robust anti tracking implemented
