Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy

Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by reaperducer on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:54AM (#19408093)

try to sign-up for paging services, as a means to replace your cellphone with a passive-only device, and see how far you can actually get with that idea.

Pagers are still used in some industries, like healthcare, where people can die if a message doesn’t get through. Pagers are still more reliable than text messages and cell phones in many locations and especially inside large buildings like hospitals. Though the industry is switching.

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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by renholder on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:54PM (#19409474)

>Pagers are still used in some industries...

I never said that they weren't, yeah?

I suggested it being a difficult alternative because of the wide-spread use of cell phones. For example, in my country, the national paging system was taken down in August of 2011; so, there's no consumer paging services. B2B (which hospitals would be inclusive of) still exist, to be sure, but that means nothing in the overall scheme of a consumer trying to not buy a cell phone.

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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by pdkl95 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:10AM (#19408193)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...

"Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders [Dan Geer] uses a pager instead of a smart phone"

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