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Originally Posted by motion
Thank you for that. Taking off my tinfoil hat now...
Can you imagine the fallout if its discovered - and proven to be true - that a major corp like Amazon is eavesdropping on the homes of its customers? I just don't see it happening. Why would they take that risk?
Some of you (LOL most of you) are highly irrational.
BTW, if I'm a bad guy talking about building bombs and blowing up people and buildings, I probably am not going to have one of these in my abode.
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For me the question is not why would Amazon or Google Or Apple turn on listening and risk the exposure, but why they would not?
There is a VAST (read: BIG MONEY) market for in the collected data that is gleaned from our online activities and the flip side of directed marketing. If anything has been consistent over the last few years is that the corporate world will take advantage of the trust the people place into them "doing the right thing" with regards to data gathering. This leads to an acceptance by us that some loss of personal privacy will be lost for the conveniences we realize. So when the stories break that corporations are mining data from and about us only comes as a minor shock to us. Now taking that next step, we allow an open microphone into our homes to have the immediate convenience or questions answered, music, dimming lights and of course commerce.
Well, speaking only for myself, I do not trust corporations to "do the right thing", at least by me. I also have no desire to be so intimately marketed to and by my choice will not have one in my home. Or in a hotel room I may be using.
Directly to you Motion, to dismiss me as "irrational" because of my thoughts do not agree with yours is simply embarrassing. Not to me but you. To be so judgemental as to dismiss my personal opinion as lacking rational thought, F*ck You. I am sure you will attempt to brush this off as a joke or maybe further dismiss me as being a liberal kook or whatever you need to say to justify your position. Good luck with that.