Yup, privacy has and always been illusion. You can never know for certain if someone is listening or there's one OV6948 or 10,000 of them hidden in your house.
We need better laws around this, not the fact that the technology is present but managing the presence of the technology a la The Quantum Thief's Gevulot.
I always put it as "If I'm in bed and I see the shadow of a person standing outside my window, is it a person or an inconveniently shaped tree?" in that moment my supposed privacy is a Schrodinger's cat and after I have drawn the curtain to see what's out there, the hard truth is that I still can't be 100% certain that I have "privacy".
We need better laws around this, not the fact that the technology is present but managing the presence of the technology a la The Quantum Thief's Gevulot.
I always put it as "If I'm in bed and I see the shadow of a person standing outside my window, is it a person or an inconveniently shaped tree?" in that moment my supposed privacy is a Schrodinger's cat and after I have drawn the curtain to see what's out there, the hard truth is that I still can't be 100% certain that I have "privacy".