Privacy laws are stiffling innovation

its really frustrating.

i would love it if google/siri/alexa could do more than what they do right now, if they could handle basic stuff, but the truth is they cant, and i think most of it is due to privacy laws, its really hard to deal with these laws, im not anti privacy, but the next generation of personal assistants need billions of hours of speech recorded and decoded in thousands of accents, hundreds of languages. thats a lot of recording people talk. and the main issue with it is privacy laws.

even now, within the US alexa (amazons assistant) is running into a unique problem, due to i cant even imagine why this law exists, its illegal to record, and store kids younger than 13s voice, but in order for alexa to work she needs to record and store the voice. so if a kid talks to alexa, amazon is technically breaking the law.

like..thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard.

privacy laws are good, we earned our privacy, but i think they are taken a little too serious and ultimately doing more harm than good.