In a surprise to no one, recording devices installed in users’ homes have recordings used in a court of law against the homeowner.
In a surprise to no one, the third party doctrine means a warrant isn’t even required to demand these recordings from the cloud provider.
In a surprise to no one, the NSA can intercept these recordings (and associated speech to text transcripts), load all the associated data into their monster correlation engine, mine the shit out of it, and say they didn’t “collect” anything because they haven’t actually put a bag over your head, driven you to a black site, and waterboarded you. Yet.
In a surprise to no one, the third party doctrine means a warrant isn’t even required to demand these recordings from the cloud provider.
In a surprise to no one, the NSA can intercept these recordings (and associated speech to text transcripts), load all the associated data into their monster correlation engine, mine the shit out of it, and say they didn’t “collect” anything because they haven’t actually put a bag over your head, driven you to a black site, and waterboarded you. Yet.