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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by larkeith on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:58PM (#17140710)
This is a false equivalence; There is a slight difference between owning a smartphone with privacy and data collection management options and actively bringing into your home a device designed and acknowledged to constantly record and transmit data.
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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by function_seven on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:26PM (#17140851)
They aren't designed to constantly record or transmit. If they were sending that kind of info out the WAN connection, it would be noticed the day it's enabled.

If you trust Google to honor the privacy and data collection management options, then I see no reason not to apply that same level of trust to their home speaker product.

Now, whether these devices are capable of doing this on a targeted basis, that's possible. That same possibility exists with the closed source baseband chip in all our smartphones as well, though.

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