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mk  ·  2757 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Natasha Lomas: Not OK, Google

    There's this assumption in all of this "not OK, Google" thinking that people don't have the common sense to understand that putting an always-on microphone in their house means that an AI will be listening in on their life.

I don't think my issue is with Google. If you want an AI to help you, your AI needs to be able to know you. If Google didn't offer that product, someone else would soon enough. But that doesn't mean that this creates more threats of government abuse.

The problem as I see it, is that a government agency can tap any of this data without due process and real privacy safe guards. Not only does this diminish the judicial system, but it is going to lead to cultural change that further positions us as wards of the state rather than the state existing as a service.