I know it puts me in the minority, but I honestly do not care that much. It's obfuscation by volume.
If Google wants to hear me and my roommate argue about Red Dead Redemption online or the new Bill Burr comedy special, good luck with that.
When I worked in IT, people always used to say oh you can read my emails? Nobody wants to read about your boring-ass life.
My understanding is they are using our speech to create better speech-recognition and it shows. I have much better luck with OK Google than Siri. I willingly give up my privacy for a superior product because most of my conversations are inane.
And if I ever intend to murder anyone, I will turn off Alexa.
I find it hilarious that you mention this and completely disregard what google is famous for: search. Volume means nothing and relying on volume to hide in a crowd is basically impossible in today's world. Even the absence of data sends a signal, so when you turn off Alexa, that's when your surveillance will increase.
>If Google wants to hear me and my roommate argue about Red Dead Redemption online or the new Bill Burr comedy special, good luck with that.
Google doesn't care about that. But you can bet that the contractors they hire are deeply interested in the 3am conversation you had with/about your significant other.
Not even sort of. They know EXACTLY who you are, and have the ability to determine EXACTLY what you say, or when you are home, or who is home with you, or meta data about your habits like sleep or TV, or in a very realistic possibility monitor for words beyond “Alexa”... like let’s say “Sanders” or “Trump” and upload number of times those trigger words were said every 24 hours.
There is no part of this that is obfuscation by volume. Specifically you get specifically tagged.
How could it not be within reason that a door to door political volunteer is sent to your specific door with their tablet saying “Don’t mention guns, Do mention tax reform”?
There are arguments I can make for personal assistants esp for elderly or disabled. But obfuscation by volume definitely isn’t the case here.
If Google wants to hear me and my roommate argue about Red Dead Redemption online or the new Bill Burr comedy special, good luck with that.
When I worked in IT, people always used to say oh you can read my emails? Nobody wants to read about your boring-ass life.
My understanding is they are using our speech to create better speech-recognition and it shows. I have much better luck with OK Google than Siri. I willingly give up my privacy for a superior product because most of my conversations are inane.
And if I ever intend to murder anyone, I will turn off Alexa.