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Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings by UncleMeat on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:05PM (#20414461)
It also doesn't make it unethical. Putting privacy related issues in a privacy policy makes sense to me.
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Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings by gibba999 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:52PM (#20416625)
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.

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Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings by saagarjha on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:51PM (#20416220)
Putting it in a privacy policy that you expect nobody to read, and using language that they are not accustomed to, is unethical.
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