Has this been quantified? Otherwise it's easy to fall for confirmation bias, eg. "facebook is secretly listening to you"
Agreeing with your general point - don't jump to conclusions without evidence - but I don't like if we're now establishing the "Facebook/Google/Apple is secretly listening to you" rumors as the canonical example of that behavior, and thereby essentially making those companies immune to further scrutiny.
We've seen that by now there exist both the will and the technical means to pull off stuff like this, so even if it used to be a baseless rumor and urban legend, it deserves to be re-checked periodically, because companies might start to do it for real at some point. Samsung here actually did.
From what I heard these are especially awful, even by low IoT standards.
just hack it right after purchase and own the glass
> “A plank of wood must not be carried along a pavement. It can only be moved if it is being unloaded from a vehicle or taken into a building.”
But big tech cannot be regulated at all. We used to regulate any minor thing that was annoying enough, but a whole industry spying and prying on the whole population is fine.
Maybe it's time for something like that, a shared baseline standard of "this thing won't spy on you", with huge financial penalties for companies caught lying about it.
Then prime adoption by making it a requirement for anything bought by the government.
I'm not sure it's literal enough.
MarkWayneNewton•1h ago