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dickthegrouch

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7. What the hell has happened to Ethics in the last 20 years?

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Jan 24, 2014, 03:14 PM

Jan 2014

The ethics of a company saying "This is perfectly OK by W3C standards", WHEN IN FACT IT ISN'T OK BY ANY ETHICAL STANDARD, is incomprehensible to me. Google had an ethical duty to fix this as quickly as possible. They have FAILED.

Google now has an ethical duty to prevent any and all proceeds from voice recognition from being used by anyone other than themselves without an opt-in by informed users, as well as fixing the problem this week.

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Google Chrome "Bugs" Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations [View all] onehandle Jan 2014 OP

"Bugs"? MannyGoldstein Jan 2014 #1

Nice catch. Fixed it. nt onehandle Jan 2014 #3

To be clear, the user has to allow access at least once in order to allow exploit. PeaceNikki Jan 2014 #2

Well that sounds really nefarious...except... snooper2 Jan 2014 #4

Incredible video... thanks!..nt Jesus Malverde Jan 2014 #5

Do No Evil: Google Corporate Motto dickthegrouch Jan 2014 #6

What the hell has happened to Ethics in the last 20 years? dickthegrouch Jan 2014 #7

+1. Lizards. El_Johns Jan 2014 #9

Note to Google dickthegrouch Jan 2014 #8

Exactly where is voice recognition activated. Skidmore Jan 2014 #10