williamh

gatorguy said:

auxio said:

gatorguy said:

williamh said:

My first reaction is that those people are full of themselves and this will be something that I do not like at all.  However, I am not so stubborn that I will refuse to be surprised and delighted.  I just don't think that will happen.

If it works how I think it will, we will soon have another term like "Glasshole" was used for Google Glass users to describe the users of this device.

If a head or body-worn AI device with a camera comes from Apple, will you still have the same "Glasshole" opinion?

As long as it's truly "privacy first" as he states. That was a big part of the stigma with Google Glass: what's happening to all of the audio and video being captured by it? Especially given that it was created by a company whose bottom line depends on knowing everything about you.

With devices like this in the works, I think that we really need laws that force companies to be open and honest about all of the data they collect about us, and exactly what it's being used for. Google has definitely become more transparent about it in the past 10 years, but only because people (and governments) have become more aware of it and demanded it. And the default behaviour still tends to be "opt out" rather than "opt in".

In the past two years, give or take, Google has generally been going with OPT-IN on privacy-related toggles, so they've seen the light. In fact I can't think of any personal data collection that's automatically taken without the user's OK beforehand, which does not mean to claim there aren't any but I don't believe there are. A prime example of Google's change in attitude is their Google Cloud Backup privacy-forward E2EE for Android phones which is on by default, and requires the user to actively tell Google they don't want their cloud backups encrypted. That's opposed to Apple requiring users opt-in for it as the default is off. 

In any event, at least the bigger players do seem to be more transparent than they were a decade ago, and offer much clearer explanations of the how's, why's, and what's when putting privacy toggles in front of the user for a more informed choice. Apple has long been good about it, and yeah it's taken Apple and a few eyeballs from authorities to push Google down that same path, but today I'd say they both are pretty good about asking.

The bigger issue for me is the significant growth in "other" trackers and data aggregators over the last several years. Every time I go into Ghostery, which is regularly, there's dozens of new ones popping up. Those smaller ones tend to fly under the radar, but put a couple dozen together and there are massive files being collected on all of us, and worse than that, much of it is for sale. Literally for sale. 

I fully expect Humane's product not to be one of those bad guys, and totally upfront about what they gather, and what they use it for, offering privacy toggles to those uncomfortable with bits and parts of it. Personally, I'm intrigued by the Humane AI pin.