Joel Reidenberg was quoted in USA Today about the first forays into a world where digital servants, such as Amazon Echo or Samsung’s Smart TV, always listen for our commands and how they are raising red flags for privacy and security experts, who see too many ways it could all go horribly wrong.
“These devices are microphones already installed in people’s homes, transmitting data to third parties. So reasonable privacy doesn’t exist. Under the Fourth Amendment, if you have installed a device that’s listening and is transmitting to a third party, then you’ve waived your privacy rights under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act,” said Joel Reidenberg, director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School in New York City.
Read the entire USA Today article.