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

• 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

      That it’s listening and remembering when I talk to it? That’s not exactly spying on us.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        A couple of days later, I received an email containing links to gigabytes of information: particulars of every purchase I’ve ever made – from the noir novel I bought on the day that Amazon UK launched to the 28th pair of headphones acquired in as many years. Records of every page turn of every Kindle ebook I’ve opened, every moment of Prime content I’ve watched, measured by the second. And, of course, the details of every interaction we have ever had with our Echo; every question asked, every song requested, every timer set.

        They don’t make it easy to find gold among the fields of data available for download.

        That’s exactly what it is.

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      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You’re getting douchevoted for speaking heresy but you’re right, Amazon only records requests and commands - i.e. what you say after “Alexa”. Every article about what Amazon actually does and doesn’t record is quickly forgotten because sinister plots are far more entertaining.

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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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