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> But I think the lesson was pretty clear that people will trade privacy for convenience.

Not everywhere. In Germany, Amazon Echo isn't nearly as popular.



Germany has an, sometimes irrational, phobia of new technology that doesn't always have something to do with privacy concerns.


In this case, the privacy concerns are obvious.




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