There is no going back is there?

"QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"When you read parts of the applications, it’s really clear that this is spyware and a surveillance system meant to serve you up to advertisers."

JAMIE COURT, the president of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, on the dangers that smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Echo may pose."

"Amazon and Google, the leading sellers of such devices, say the assistants record and process audio only after users trigger them by pushing a button or uttering a phrase like “Hey, Alexa” or “O.K., Google.” But each company has filed patent applications, many of them still under consideration, that outline an array of possibilities for how devices like these could monitor more of what users say and do. That information could then be used to identify a person’s desires or interests, which could be mined for ads and product recommendations."

[nytimes.com]