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Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by 9872 on Thursday July 30, 2015 @09:35PM (#9979429)
How's that different from listening to any other human you interact with? Is it somehow worse because it's a computer rather than a human? That's the kind of bigotry that gets you robot uprisings.
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by proveanegative on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:10AM (#9980030)
I'll bite.

Your mind is wired by evolution to assess, evaluate and react to human behavior. It is equipped to defend you another humans' attempts to influence your behavior for their own ends when you interact with them in person. Software that you run daily should be able to bypass those built-in protections in a more subtle and personalized manner than traditional advertising or propaganda could ever dream of. In an untrained mind it won't meet resistance but the mind can be trained; the "bigotry against 'robots'" (really, human organizations acting at a distance) on the part of humans who read enough stories like this one emerges as a result and is completely justified.

Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by 9872 on Saturday August 01, 2015 @03:46PM (#9988423)
By evolution, or by socialization?

And if it is by evolution, that immediately presents the trivial solution that we will naturally evolve to relate better to machines, making this a nonissue.

Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by papapra on Friday July 31, 2015 @08:08AM (#9981223)
It's different in the sense that you know that your firend cares about you, where as for software you can't be sure if it's in your interests.
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by manigandham on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:49PM (#9984398)
People also lie. A lot.
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by 9872 on Saturday August 01, 2015 @03:47PM (#9988424)
If you were a woman, you'd have two dozen kids by now.
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by Filthy_casual on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:15AM (#9980550)
Are you saying that listening to what you have to say and writing what you have to say on wikipedia is the same thing?
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 by 9872 on Saturday August 01, 2015 @03:48PM (#9988429)
Are you hung up with the speech vs text thing? Because that's so not the point.