The report did say the company tries to anonymize the recordings before sending them to contractors, identifying them by numbers rather than user names. But again, VRT was able to pick up enough data from the recordings to find the addresses of the users in question, and even confront some of the users in the recordings – to their great dismay.
EDIT: Giving a second thought, I find hard to believe that Google, or Amazon, with some of the smartest people in the world never thought that this could actually happen. Really?
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it's not about being smart. I've worked for enough companies to know it's about being rushed. Every company i've ever worked for has a high traffic deadline. But even if given all the time in the world, bad choices in regards to security are going to be made. We are human so we make mistakes. This however does not feel like a mistake, it feels like a poor choice of consumer privacy.
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It's quite intriguing, actually.
EDIT: Giving a second thought, I find hard to believe that Google, or Amazon, with some of the smartest people in the world never thought that this could actually happen. Really?
it's not about being smart. I've worked for enough companies to know it's about being rushed. Every company i've ever worked for has a high traffic deadline. But even if given all the time in the world, bad choices in regards to security are going to be made. We are human so we make mistakes. This however does not feel like a mistake, it feels like a poor choice of consumer privacy.