Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard

catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Based on the article, it lets her ask them things that she doesn’t want to ask her parents, though I’m not sure that if I were 9 years old that I’d suddenly want to discover that my parents have a list of everything I’ve asked it and are reading through it, much less that Amazon has a database.

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  • brot@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, that is a terrible violation of trust. A parent should stop listening when they find out that they have a copy of such conversations of their child. They shouldn’t write a newspaper article with citations about it

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    • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      A parent shouldn’t be letting their single digit aged child have unsupervised access to the Internet. Agreed that they shouldn’t be publicizing it, but this idea that parents should be letting their kids have secrets when they’re so little is one way dangerous adults take advantage of kids.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s a terrible idea.

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  • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This seems like a bad idea, to me

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• stevo887@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because they have no idea why not to. Despite having written the article explaining that clearly.

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    • stevo887@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Must have missed the part where the article explained anything clearly other than Amazon documents all your prompts.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s not enough?

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    • stevo887@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Was there any indication that it was listening outside of being prompted? That’s just an assumption and would be no different than the phone we all have in our pockets most of the day.

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• lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  To add to the other responses, and I suspect the real reason, is that Coco is listening to Audible Audio books regularly and/or music. It’s mentioned and then dropped by the article fairly quickly.

  Interesting how every comment on the article is doing the “you’re a terrible parent, how could you do that” routine when I’ll bet it’s there because Coco either took the first one in or asked for a second one. Kid wants, kid normally gets one way or another.

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  • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also, surely this device is no different to a phone in that neither is meant to be listening indiscriminately. There’s a chance a 9 year old has a phone nowadays I’d imagine

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They work great as an intercom, if you have them in every. Room

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, an intercom between you, your kids, and Amazon.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Alexa, why does daddy yell and hit mommy?

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