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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by CaptainZapp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:07AM (#17141463)
The problem with all those tech companies about their "mistakes" is that they lost the benefit of the doubt long ago.

Remember when Google scooped up unsecured WiFi data via their creepy street view vehicles?

Yeah, that was a mistake by some mid-level manager and not intentional.

Don't even get me started on Facebook's "mistakes".

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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:39AM (#17141575)
It's only a mistake if they get caught.
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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by intrasight on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:04AM (#17144062)
Exactly!
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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by walshemj on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:09AM (#17142305)
No if your using freely broadcast info to help with geolocation harvesting it all on the vehicle and processing to extract the info you want centrally is the optimal way to do it.
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