Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by jkot on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:22PM
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Is not this wiretapping? Recording someone without consent is illegal in some states.
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Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 20, 2016 @02:18PM
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I think it's illegal in all states if no subject of the recording provides consent, the split is between states with a one-party consent rule and an all-parties consent rule.
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by Zarathustra30 on Sunday March 20, 2016 @03:49PM
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In states which require all-party consent, are things like "Hey Siri" illegal?
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by TTPrograms on Sunday March 20, 2016 @05:37PM
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Seems like you could distinguish between "recording" and "listening" in that case. Then "recording" is only initiated upon the activation of a trigger which confirms two-party consent.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if Apple intermittently recorded background noise for ex. training purposes in violation of that, anyways.
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by colejohnson66 on Sunday March 20, 2016 @03:09PM
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But doesn't agreeing to the ToS mean you agree to be surveilled?
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by brianwawok on Sunday March 20, 2016 @03:39PM
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ToS doesn't trump local law!
* By reading this post you give me the right to steal all your underwear
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by kuschku on Sunday March 20, 2016 @04:31PM
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A lot of ToS are null and void in many countries. The paragraphs that are null and void then usually are just void, but the rest of the contract still holds.
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by fh973 on Sunday March 20, 2016 @03:26PM
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It might be the phone of someone else.
Re:FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using ‘Silve...
by danielrhodes on Sunday March 20, 2016 @06:20PM
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You can argue it isn't wiretapping/recording. Like Shazam, they are fingerprinting the audio and sending the fingerprints back to a server. In the same way, something like Moves fingerprints the gyroscope on your phone and identifies if you are running/walking/taking a car -- but this isn't surveillance.