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Yes! Let's put microphones in every single household in the US. That way, then it just becomes sooooo easy to pass a law for the company (in this case Google), to collaborate via a National Security Letter to make any feed available.

I can imagine the NSA and FBI salivating over the mere idea of this.

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We're already carrying microphones around in our pockets. Do the speaker microphones really make the situation worse? When it is almost guaranteed that there is already multiple microphones present.

I would say they do. For instance, if I got a Google Home it would be the only non-Apple device with a microphone in my apartment, making gov access significantly easier.

Do you really think isolating yourself to the Apple ecosystem makes you more secure? If so: how do you qualify that?

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