> > It's hard to have any empathy when the warning label was already on the box for all these products.

> These snooty takes where we're supposed to look down upon others for having reasonable assumptions about usage of their data are why it's so hard to get the general public to care about privacy.

In addition: it’s not just the Ring camera installer whose rights are being violated (to be optimistic), it’s everyone who walks past on the sidewalk.

Privacy is a public good.

And it’s so long gone nobody (in the US or UK at least) can see a way to get it back.

>People don't care if a Google bot "reads" their e-mail for spam filtering.

There was that google engineer who was reading kids emails to groom them.

If someone can abuse something, you should expect it will be abused and you might not expect the avenue of abuse.

I get what you are trying to say, that its outcomes that are important. But you cant just hand everything over and trust.

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