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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by aylmao on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:26AM (#17141533)
1. This doesn't mean it will never happen again, or in other contexts (not "My Day").

2. Google still has the capacity to do it, and sure, this was a mistake, but just like Android records people's location by default, in the future google could decide for an opt-out feature that records for the sake of training ML, analytics, or some feature.

This is not about tinfoil conspiracies, this is simply caring about privacy. The vast majority of people in the US weren't directly affected by the NSA's espionage, but still there was public outcry because people like privacy.

If this guy/girl thinks it's better to be safe than sorry, let her/him do so. No need to get so defensive of Google.

EDIT: A downvote? I'm curious as to why (especially given there was no reply).

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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by ehsankia on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:38AM (#17141569)
Sure, a lot of things /could/ happen, but my issue in particular was that the original comment was (intentionally or not) misleading people to believe something that was very far from reality.

As it is, they don't have ads and they don't record without consent. You could argue all day about what they could or would do in the future, but I will reconsider my decision to use he device then. Let's get the facts about how the product works now straight for now.

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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by zdkl on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:15AM (#17142338)
> As it is

What makes you apparently think

1) the current state of affairs is good enough coming from anyone in the BigCorp top10, particularily those already involved un data collection as core business?

2) future iterations on any of [hardware, software, business goals] will be conform to currently reasonable expectation of use from the general public ?

I mean we're talking about a corp that has internalised "Bait and Switch" as core business model..

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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by propogandist on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:24AM (#17141789)
the person you're responding to appears to be a google employee who regularly comments pro-google statements in these type of threads, trying to paint google in a positive light.
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