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How much are two hundred million microphones in earshot of private conversations worth?



Demonstrably very little, at least with regard to $€¥.


Maybe right now it's value is $0.

Think bigger picture. Imagine a panopticon spanning Ring.com camera networks and voice recordings telling you what's going on inside, with AI providing automated summaries of recent conversations. All delivered end-to-end by Amazon!


While I believe that this is actually a simmering threat to society, I have a lot of trust that the current slew of devices are not eavesdropping on you. I believe smartphones to be a much bigger threat.

I’m more worried about smart phones acclimating people go carrying tracking and microphones. But, we find those tools indispensable now, so instead, we seem to want to focus on smart speakers


Apparently -$10,000,000,000.00.


One Zuckerberg.


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