Water is wet, Sky is blue.

I can get why someone would want privacy and that's their prerogative. However, it's not a secret that owning a smartphone can compromise that privacy, whether innocuously or maliciously. If you've opened all the doors and windows, don't complain about all the bugs and rodents.

You might even end up eating at one of those restaurants! For shame, Google.

How it this news? A 12 year old says something stupid on reddit and it ends up on the front page of Sladhdot?

There is no Commercial Off-The-Shelf launch software.

I read the headline and got scared.

Netflix doesn't show ads, so i don't see how it's a problem that they don't have verified viewership numbers. If they give numbers in their quarterly statements, maybe the FEC would care, but i don't see how the numbers themselves are hurting competition. Unless it's the traditional networks saying that they can get a producer more viewers, so they don't have to pay the producer as much as netflix.