Privacy statement concern

Thank you....

Indeed, thank you Max, for your patience.

I thought people with Play5s would be more worried about sonos recording everything you say for 20 seconds whilst it waits for a "wake up" word, wonder if Mi5 has a special wake up word ;O))

No, Sonos will not disable your products.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sonos-accept-new-privacy-policy-speakers-cease-to-function/

No, Sonos will not disable your products.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sonos-accept-new-privacy-policy-speakers-cease-to-function/

WTF Wow just wow. Will be watching this closely.

The article seemingly contradicts the comments from sonos defenders and employees.

No granular opt out options + no updates without accepting giving away our privacy to Sonos is insidious.

Everybody should read the article linked by beynym.

But if you are short on time, to paraphrase some of the tweets I've been reading about the article:

Tl;dr Sonos tells users to accept massive private data collection or your expensive speakers will stop working.

I really don't trust news articles that much anymore. Particularly when the source is an unnamed spokesperson. We have a named spokesperson on this thread.

But if you think about it, this shouldn't be too big of a deal. They are going to add new features that are going to require more user data. Eventually, features could be updated so that you don't get much out of the speakers if you aren't ok with the privacy policy. However, Sonos isn't stupid. If customers are not comfortable with the privacy policy, if it's going to effect sales, then they are going to setup options that work for the customer.

Personally, I get why people are concerned, but I just don't see how people could harm me in anyway with the information they are gathering.

I really don't trust news articles that much anymore. Particularly when the source is an unnamed spokesperson. We have a named spokesperson on this thread.

But if you think about it, this shouldn't be too big of a deal. They are going to add new features that are going to require more user data. Eventually, features could be updated so that you don't get much out of the speakers if you aren't ok with the privacy policy. However, Sonos isn't stupid. If customers are not comfortable with the privacy policy, if it's going to effect sales, then they are going to setup options that work for the customer.

Personally, I get why people are concerned, but I just don't see how people could harm me in anyway with the information they are gathering.

So you are really gonna call this fake news? Come on man get real.

They are going against what is considered good policy when it comes to customer privacy.

Just click yes and give them access to your living room, bedroom, bathroom, kids room and continue, I'm sure it will be fine. I'm gonna put my tinfoil hat on and wait this out.

So you are really gonna call this fake news? Come on man get real.


I'm not going to blindly believe the news article when a staff member says otherwise. I'm honestly taking more of a wait and see approach. We will know when it comes out. But as I said, the worse case scenario is probably ok with me anyway.


They are going against what is considered good policy when it comes to customer privacy.


Maybe. If the news article is true, then yes. If the staffer on here is true, then no.


Just click yes and give them access to your living room, bedroom, bathroom, kids room and continue, I'm sure it will be fine. I'm gonna put my tinfoil hat on and wait this out.

'Access'? What does that even mean? I don't really care that much if Sonos knows that I called a zone 'bathroom' and I like to listen to Weird Al Yankovic in there.

You should go update,. You must confirm agreement with the privacy policy as a whole, no option to decline, no option to decline specific data collection you want to opt out of.