Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by nkrisc on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:01AM (#21281083)

The government itself doing the things these corporation do would generate loads of outrage. For whatever reason it's a lot more acceptable for a company to collect all this data so you can play music with your voice and then the government can secretly collect it all later if they wish.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by Clubber on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:12AM (#21281148)

Are you not aware of the Ed Snowden revelations? I mean the NSA is piped into all these corporate data streams.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by nkrisc on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:30PM (#21283704)

I'm very aware. That's kind of my point.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by Clubber on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:48PM (#21285192)

I'm sure selling data to the NSA, federal, state and local governments is very lucrative to these companies and is a primary revenue stream.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by nkrisc on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:44AM (#21290461)

Unlikely, in my opinion. More likely the government can come along with national security letters or other means we might not even be aware of and just take what they need.

On the other hand some companies have been shown to be very willing to sell data to any buyer, not just the government. Phone carriers come to mind.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by nothrabannosir on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:29PM (#21285552)

A primary revenue stream? For a public company, which has to publish its financials yet somehow keep this hidden? This sounds far fetched, to be honest.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by hutzlibu on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:44PM (#21286629)

The point is, that a corporation takes data only from their customers who consent to it (if they would read it).

The government would spie on potentielly everybody (and they do btw.)

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by bilbo0s on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:36PM (#21287648)

Not really true.

FB for instance stores tagged image data of non-FB-users.

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