This is common knowledge for us tech oriented people but with time (and stories such as these) it is (hopefully) becoming more and more general knowledge.
Personally I'm ok with it: If I use a cloud based voice enabled device, I accept that my voice might be heard by someone working there. Similarly, if one sends nude pics as a "private" message in messenger, they shouldn't be surprised if someone at FB sees them. Know the risk, evaluate the benefit, and make an informed decision.
One caveat is the explicitness of "put online": The above holds for things put up deliberately, not for things uploaded accidentally or covertly. In these cases the data is illegally obtained and therefor, imo, not important for this discussion. That's because I (naively) don't think big companies would risk a large scale purposefully illegal enterprise (and if they do, there should be major ramifications) and 3LA can spy on anyone anyway if they want, and that's (currently) legal/above the law.
This is common knowledge for us tech oriented people but with time (and stories such as these) it is (hopefully) becoming more and more general knowledge.
Personally I'm ok with it: If I use a cloud based voice enabled device, I accept that my voice might be heard by someone working there. Similarly, if one sends nude pics as a "private" message in messenger, they shouldn't be surprised if someone at FB sees them. Know the risk, evaluate the benefit, and make an informed decision.
One caveat is the explicitness of "put online": The above holds for things put up deliberately, not for things uploaded accidentally or covertly. In these cases the data is illegally obtained and therefor, imo, not important for this discussion. That's because I (naively) don't think big companies would risk a large scale purposefully illegal enterprise (and if they do, there should be major ramifications) and 3LA can spy on anyone anyway if they want, and that's (currently) legal/above the law.