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> lest we end up with putting GPS trackers and video recording devices on each and every person. ....phones?
That's at least voluntary. For now...
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This is the exact thing we have to fight against because it leads to class based systems. Those who use cloud computing are innocent and those who don't are presumably hiding something. This is the why we have constitutional rights, to avoid such broad generalizations. Everyone has the right to privacy, regardless of what utilities or Hobbies they have.
Everyone has a right to prevention of unreasonable search and seizure. It's still up in the air whether going to a third-party to whom you've voluntarily given a bunch of information about yourself and asking that third-party to render that information is "unreasonable." It's pretty simple to make a case that it isn't. To wit: there's plenty of legal precedent for compelling a witness to testify against someone; are…
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From my POV, cops tend to ignore anything that doesn't point to "guilty". There would be no benefit to the accused in this case. IANAL, yada, yada.
That's absurd. Investigative police work is the process of ruling out possible suspects to arrive at the truth.
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This is the exact thing we have to fight against because it leads to class based systems. Those who use cloud computing are innocent and those who don't are presumably hiding something. This is the why we have constitutional rights, to avoid such broad generalizations. Everyone has the right to privacy, regardless of what utilities or Hobbies they have.
Everyone has a right to prevention of unreasonable search and seizure. It's still up in the air whether going to a third-party to whom you've voluntarily given a bunch of information about yourself and asking that third-party to render that information is "unreasonable." It's pretty simple to make a case that it isn't. To wit: there's plenty of legal precedent for compelling a witness to testify against someone; are…
It's really not 'up in the air' - it's been settled for over a century, look at banks and phone companies.
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Just because something is legally a crime doesn't mean it's not legitimate.
Actually, that's exactly what it means.
Oh, and let's not forget "just put all your data in the cloud" and then a court finds that "cloud" is not subject to your personal possessions...
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While technically an accurate description, I generally don't think of encryption that terminates at a service provider as "end to end". I usually think of end to end encryption in the sense of messaging, where it is encrypted when one human sends it and is decrypted when another human opens it.
By that definition, encryption for a cloud-based home automation system is impossible, right? "Here's the command from the Echo Dot." "Great, what should I do?" "Can't tell you; it's encrypted."
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Isn't it a good thing to record data that helps solve a murder? The police are still getting it with a warrant and presumably from physical access to the device, so it's not the same worry as bulk monitoring.
The Amazon Echo records data from all of its users, not just the murderers. It's creeping close to bulk monitoring.
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Those patterns would be easily detected in the dataset. I tried logging my electricity use. You can easily see what time I wake up each day, when I get home, whether I watch TV or not, whether I cook using the microwave or the hob. It doesn't show up on my graph, but I'd bet from the data you can see exactly when I go to bed, since I plug in my phone (+1W) and switch off the last light (-5W). Within all this, the fri…
Yes, by the exact amount of current used, the logger can tell what you've got on at any moment. It can be correlated with water usage as well. It'll log how many times you flush, and whether you brush your teeth. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the government tries to require a device that logs all our conversations at home. It'll be sold as "crucial for law enforcement". The Echo is a technological marvel. But w…