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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by asciident on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:21AM (#20402820)
Everyone would just decline because there's no incentive to agree, and their product would die. Plus it would annoy users and cause stress.
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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by falcolas on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:29AM (#20402898)
Is that our problem? If a product relies on dark pattern acceptance of being "spied upon" to succeed, why should we want it to succeed?
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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by therealdrag0 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:52PM (#20403793)
Not necessarily. I've had Google Voice (And maybe iphone?) ask me if they can use my voice-mail to improve transcription data, and I always say yes. But it's an explicit ask for each time (If I remember correctly), which is nice.
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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:47PM (#20405754)
You underestimate how many people are willing to take altruistic actions when the (perceived) cost is sufficiently small.

The main downside is an extra question during an onboarding flow.

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