Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
by saagarjha on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:25PM
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You're missing the point, which is that you can slip anything into a privacy policy or other long agreement, no matter how outrageous it may be, and nobody will read it. Putting anything there does not make it ethical or legally binding.
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Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
by UncleMeat on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:05PM
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It also doesn't make it unethical. Putting privacy related issues in a privacy policy makes sense to me.
Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
by gibba999 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:52PM
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A privacy policy is definitely the right place for privacy issues. My point is exactly as vharuc made above: Putting something there neither makes it ethical nor unethical. A contract or license is not an excuse for bad behavior.
* If my privacy policy is a copy of HIPAA, that's an ethical privacy policy.
* If my privacy policy is as Google's here, it seems unethical without clear informed consent (which a disclaimer in a novel-long privacy policy doesn't provide).
* If your privacy policy says you'll collect incriminating information about me, and sell it to the highest bidder for use in blackmail, it's unethical even with attempts at informed consent.