What are your thoughts and feelings on smart devices in home (echo, home, etc)?

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sethnintendo said:

I was just wondering what people thought about these devices.  Are you concerned with privacy?  Do you not care about being listened to 24/7?  There have been some interesting situations that have come up already with these devices.  Such as this one incident (which I believe it has occurred multiple times already) in which a couple is having an arguement that is escalating to the point of abuse or possible murder where the guy or woman shouts out what are you going to call the cops or something like that.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/police-amazon-echo-device-called-911-during-attack/2202749/

So yea maybe in those cases the person does need someone listening to them 24/7.  I don't really see a need or care for such a product.  I would use it as much as a tablet (which is 0%).  Some features might be neat to play music through bluetooth but I have plenty of other "dumb" devices that can manage these tasks. 

So let me know your opinion on such devices being used within your home.

I personally don't understand all the fear that people have over privacy in the modern era. Yes, they could access your infromation 24/7 - thing is, the people that can do that have no interest in doing so. The worst that usually happens is some algorithms sorting through your data to give you personnalized advertisment - but who the fuck cares that a computer looked through your data? Actually, I really wouldn't even care if other people looked through my data, if it's some random office worker who knows me as nothing else than potential customer no.9887868.

I guess some regulation regarding secure encryption and safe, anonymous data transaction could be good. But the collection itself, I'm really just fine with.