[ExI] Digital Jeeves

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:16 AM, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com>wrote:

> The vital trait that digital Jeeveses lack is discretion. They now can all
> be presumed to spy on you, absent proof they aren't, if there's any
> possible backpath. Which implies anyone else who wants to know also can,
> absent proof they can't.


Careful about that "guilty until proven innocent".  It's a very small step
from there to, for example, holding their manufacturers responsible for
monitoring your house 24/7 even if they never agreed to it, and thus to
holding them liable should a burglary occur and the police weren't
immediately called.

Some digital Jeeveses could be spying on you.  The potential is there.
That's different from relying on them to do so.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20130730/38d40b20/attachment.html>