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Old June 30th, 2020, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Buzz View Post
Quite honestly, I'm very aware of what's shared with who.. but I know I'm fairly unique in that concern.

The ONLY automation I like are motion activated lights. I WON'T do any "echo" or "siri" or "alexa" or whatever.. I simply don't like knowing there's a microphone that can record anything at any time. In fact, even my cell phone is often kept in another room where I can here it ring, but it can't hear conversations. Now I am ambulatory and don't need to rely on automation for anything. So that surely plays a role.

Am I crazy regarding this.. well.. I guess only time will tell. But I have had a couple instances that seemingly make it clear what I think is private is absolutely NOT private.

Privacy matters... at least to me.

Things like my location.. well that's public record the moment I bought my house.... my shopping habits. Yes they are tracked other than hand to hand cash purchases. But, that's all a far cry from a system capable of listening to every word spoken in it's presence and retaining it for use at a later date.
you are not crazy nor unique in this. I see this all the time in the different forums and even in the different articles comment sections. I just choose to live like the Jetsons as much as possible and hopefully at my age, I won't have to worry about any possible data collected about me will be used against me. but then way my insurance keeps going up, I am willing to bet they are using my food purchases against me since I pay with a smartwatch or phone these days :-)
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