• @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’ve seen those, but my comment has been more about the

      the company would be sued out of business.

      Because I don’t think that has ever happened.

    • @ArghZombies
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      01 year ago

      There’s a big difference between some people at a company unlawfully accessing customer data (which is basically what this is), compared to it being a secret company policy to harvest all that data to use for their other secret business practices.

      Security of those microphones is a genuine and legitimate security concern. But that’s a very different situation to the conspiracy theory that ‘Google / Alexa is listening in to everything we say so that they can put an ad in-front of us based on the name of a product that they overheard’,