With all due respect, it’s a microphone connected to the internet that you are meant to install in your home. How are you surprised to see it used as a surveillance device?
no no no, you should not expect people to behave badly.
I agree with the sentiment that it is a crying shame this technology could be used to help people for whom keyboards become complicated but instead it's used to trick them.
> no no no, you should not expect people to behave badly
Should you not?
There’s a bit of a spectrum of that. On one end of the spectrum, we all leave our front doors unlocked and our car keys in our parked cars in case someone is stranded and needs to borrow our car. Most of us don’t do that, but that’s what a truly high trust society looks like.
I think it’s prudent to expect any large tech company to violate our privacy to exactly the degree they are physically capable of. It doesn’t mean we should morally approve of them living down to our low expectations of them, any more than we should morally approve of burglars and car thieves exploiting the naivety of people who think they don’t need to lock up their homes and vehicles.
And yes, it is a crying shame that we live in a low-trust world.
>no no no, you should not expect people to behave badly
you should not excuse people behaving badly because it is to be expected.
if you want to be able to protect against people behaving badly you should learn to expect it of them, expectation of bad behavior enables preparation.
