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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by have_faith on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:41AM (#21280948)
> stakeholders that might be in proximity

I didn't realise visiting a friends house made me a stakeholder in all of their technology choices.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by snarf21 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:32AM (#21283126)
Or they might not even be friends. Walk down a street filled with Ring doorbells. You are being surveilled by strangers who have been fear mongered because a pedophile will steal their Amazon delivery.
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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by dmix on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:50PM (#21287408)
A small Austrian retail shop got a $4k fine from GDPR because their surveillance camera pointed too broadly at a sidewalk. It'd be funny seeing regulators try to apply such restrictions on consumers.
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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by wongarsu on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:57AM (#21281062)
It does. If their light switch doesn't work when I press it I'm annoyed. The fact that I care makes me as stakeholder.

It's just that traditionally my opinion didn't matter much and my stake was tiny.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by diminoten on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:33PM (#21284385)
How about in their car? Or on their land? Or anywhere that you rely on others to provide for your safety at all?
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