Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
by NikolaNovak on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:00PM
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That is fundamentally incorrect.
My 74 years old father in law uses Google Assistant and Google Home way more than I do; they are a brilliant way for him to interact with technology.
He has absolutely no inkling that any of that leaves the little gray device in his kitchen, let alone any "Cloud" thing in the background, let alone that anybody is listening to it.
He would be genuinely, completely surprised, and is likely to be very uncomfortable, to be presented with any of these facts.
I will venture that he's more representative of an average user than you or I; as techies, we must consciously remind ourselves that most people are not techies, otherwise our view of society will be skewed in the extreme. :-/
My 74 years old father in law uses Google Assistant and Google Home way more than I do; they are a brilliant way for him to interact with technology.
He has absolutely no inkling that any of that leaves the little gray device in his kitchen, let alone any "Cloud" thing in the background, let alone that anybody is listening to it.
He would be genuinely, completely surprised, and is likely to be very uncomfortable, to be presented with any of these facts.
I will venture that he's more representative of an average user than you or I; as techies, we must consciously remind ourselves that most people are not techies, otherwise our view of society will be skewed in the extreme. :-/