Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice com...
by Swizec on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:04AM
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> the de facto legal right to kill you
This seems like the bigger problem. Calling the cops shouldn’t be dangerous.
It seems to me that if cops were better behaved a feature that automatically calls them when you might need help would be fantastic.
Imagine if Google could detect that you’re alone and choking or having a medical emergency. Woule be cool if it could get you help.
Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice com...
by stordoff on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:29AM
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Even if calling them is not dangerous, it seems like it'd have to be extremely reliable to not cause a problem. If a large percentage of people have similar devices, it seems you would have to have a low false positive rate for the police to not be spending an unreasonable amount of time dealing with auto-nuisance calls.
Even if the feature works perfectly, were still talking about (hypothetically, as this isn't a real feature yet) automatically summoning a platoon of people with the de facto legal right to kill you if they send danger which is exactly the reason they were called just because a potentially dangerous noise was heard