Alexa gets creepier

[UltraBudgie]

There used to be an option "don't send voice recordings to Amazon", but they're disabling it next week.



https://discuss.systems/@dev/114161826926246661

So Alexa will be trained with everything it hears? Perhaps somehow instructed to not leak the information, but only draw general conclusions from it? Things like "Alexa, how much would this customer be willing to pay for this product?"

Their cloud is secure, they say, but I wonder if it can be queried if there's a subpoena, or even a data-sharing agreement.

I know people don't care about privacy, and agree to this stuff, but it seems a little creepy to me. I guess it doesn't matter much, because cell phone apps and everything else are already listening anyway, but it's weird to see them not pretending any more.

[Maxmars]

This was never about the paltry notions of personal privacy, dignity, human rights, or even people at all.

It was always about "everything."
The entire stream of data being scattered across the planet...
they want unrestricted, uninterrupted, stream-flow access.

'Encryption' is a long-standing deflection, like 'hacking.' 
Whatever the circumstance, it will be exploited.

And since it is impossible for them to value someone else's privacy...

They have no moral, or legal incentive not to exploit EVERYTHING.

Picture the notification with a cartoonish sign attached reading: "Trust us."

[andy06shake]

Point of fact also our phones are doing the same to similar thing as our Alexa and have been for quite some time.

And there is no chance the vast majority of us would be willing to give up carrying around those little b@stards in our pockets.   

The fact of the matter is that there is no anonymity left in this world.

We gave it away freely.

[sahgwa]

Point of fact also our phones are doing the same to similar thing as our Alexa and have been for quite some time.

And there is no chance the vast majority of us would be willing to give up carrying around those little b@stards in our pockets.   

The fact of the matter is that there is no anonymity left in this world.

We gave it away freely.

And even if you are super paranoid about privacy and have no mobile phone and only use the internet in an anonymous location, you are still going to be tracked by cameras everywhere.
And then okay you freak out and go to the boonies. 
You are going to be buzzed by drones and photographed by GEOINT satellites. 
Hmphh!