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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by justinclift on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:19PM (#21635400)
> It's a normal phone doing normal phone things.

Listening for watch words 24/7 is not a normal phone thing.

"Normal" phone conversations are between ~two people.

This voice assistant crap is sending people's audio to - at least - Google for processing/analysis/storage/etc.

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by loco5niner on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:18AM (#21638967)
> Listening for watch words 24/7 is not a normal phone thing.

It is now.

At least from the perspective of your everyday-person.

From your perspective, this is not the case. But I wouldn't put the hacker news crowd in the "everyday-person" category.

Blame the companies, but don't put that ridiculous expectation on normal people.

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by justinclift on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:29PM (#21644789)
> It is now.

Sorry, but trying to normalise this crap is just not going to work.

Not sure why you're even attempting to.

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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by CDSlice on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:51AM (#21648260)
Well, it seems to be normalized pretty well with the general public.
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Re:Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues by loco5niner on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:15AM (#21649112)
I'm not making a push to change things.

I'm just recognizing the current reality. I also agree that it's pretty crappy.

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