On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 22:12, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> voice activation
> IOT functionality
> containers
> flatpacks
> modules
All these are just fancy buzzwords. When you think it through, all these
concepts actually make the system worse.
Voice activation means your computer records everything that you say, and
with the current implementations, sends everything after a keyword (which
can be said accidentally, it has happened in practice) to a central server
for processing. So your computer is effectively spying on you.
Just to chip in: worth noting that voice activation doesn't have to be
central server based (though that's the approach Google, Amazon et al.
take, for the reason they want All The Data), and voice control can be
incredibly important for accessibility purposes.
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