I heard that these devices can be hacked easily.
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Not necessarily easily, but nothing is completely foolproof. The best way to completely prevent the microphones wired into your house from being hacked is to not have them there in the first place.
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It’s not even wired into my house.
And I don’t plan on it anytime soon.
They WERE hacked a while back.
My basic reactions to such things go through three phases.The first being desire for the internet of things based on it being a a neat idea, the second being paranoia about the risks inherent in instituting such a thing into your life, and the third being the realization they aren’t actually useful enough for it to matter.
I see it like this. I take as many precautions as possible to REMOVE them having my data as possible. Why would I buy a datamining tool for my house?
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I don’t disagree, but I can’t really deny that I have a sort of whimsical interest in the concept of a smart home anyways. That sums up my reaction to a lot of relatively minimal use technology though.
Those accusations are a lie.
They do not spy on you.
And I support IoT.
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Man, i needed that laugh. I know you’re young, but you have NO IDEA just how much personal info you give them. Every single time you use “ok google” or alexa, whatever, those questions are stored, as sound. In fact, you can go listen to yourself having text to speech conversations, and even delete your copy. But not theirs. If your location is on, they literally map your life. Where you go, how long you stay there. Literally your entire life is an ad campaign profile.
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I don’t care.
I used to argue about that on the Steam Forums back in the day and telling them that it wasn’t true.
Proof:
I was 14 when I made those posts.
Ok, all you smart, up-to-date, people:
Is it true that laws were just passed in Texas stating that people can now open carry swords and machetes?
Seems like it was passed a while ago, why?
Oh.
Saw something about it on twitter.
Was curious.
Thanks.
Seems ridiculous.
Didn’t we tell you? Into the badlands is a documentary.
@Havocbyte
I just…I cannot even fathom how you could trust them, when they do the exact same thing as microsoft, apple, sony, samsung, etc. It defies logic.
https://privacy.google.com/your-data.html
http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/
That’s just from the one optout site. 104 trackers. Over THREE HUNDRED ads. They want to know what you opt out of, so they can get the data some other way.
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You really have to have a little healthy cynicism and distrust here. Because Google provides so much stuff for free, they have to make money some other way. The way they do that is collect as much information about you as possible, so that they can target advertisements better in the hopes of getting more clicks and therefore making more money.
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Well put. The problem isn’t Google itself, but that the profit in this industry is derived from the acquisition and use of personal information.
I’ll also reiterate one other issue with this - namely that the mere existence of a connected recording capability, whether audio or video, is a security risk in and of itself regardless of who made the device or what its purpose is.
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"Say hello to my little friend!"– Tony Montana, "Scarface"
Qoobo…!
Better question:
“Rain, rain go away.” (clap clap)
“Raven! Hawk ghost!
Must delete this post!”– “I Must Increase My Bust”, by Lords of Acid
@nbrownlie237: That’s just the prototype; next, we install the production model in Boba Feet’s ship, Slav One.
So it is fake news?
Mic your bathroom up for when you unleash your Week(end) of Meal Destruction (WMD)…
"Their eardrums, destroy them!"– Eris Morn (re. Omnigul), “Destiny”
@Havocbyte: “D(on’t be )evil”? 
‘Open-carry’? Bah. Why does Machete need open-carry?
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I suppose you would also have to regulate Chuck Norris for Law/Order…
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