Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by sbov on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:22PM
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New technology is scary, old is not. With the third party doctrine the only way to really protect yourself is to not participate in modern society in any way.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by nevertoolate on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:25PM
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What makes a “modern society”? Is it modern because of a certain code it uses, or because it has certain qualities which make it more vital than “non modern society”? I understand that one should follow and understand technological change, but being wary toward obvious intrusion of personal space is far from being socially unacceptable.
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by pseudalopex on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:59AM
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"Modern" can just mean "current".
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by cortesoft on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:05PM
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Or at least don't do anything that would be considered 'suspicious' within that modern society. Of course, it is hard to know what will be considered suspicious....
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by vertexFarm on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:17PM
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Whatever's convenient to dispose of people in the way of the status quo. Remember that the feds really started rounding up pot smokers on a large scale for the first time as a way to legally get rid of Vietnam war protestors. It'll happen again, and next time they'll have an infinite pit of dirt to dig through.
Nobody is 100% law-abiding or morally clean. Nobody. We're definitely all vulnerable to prosecution and blackmail. People who think they have nothing to hide aren't using their imagination properly.
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by calculi on Friday December 21, 2018 @01:51AM
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This reminds me a saying like:
anything existed before my birth is old and outdated. Ideas and inventions I grew up with really changed and is changing the world. Others are useless and invade my privacy.
I cannot remember either the exact sentences or where I get this from.
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by pseudalopex on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:44AM
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It sounds like a quotation from Douglas Adams: "Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things."