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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know, I’m supposed to be terrified of technology, the internet and big corporate!

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re supposed to know spying is all about collecting data

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    • stevo887@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do know that, but collecting data isn’t always spying.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is the first result for “spying” in a search:

        Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage on a mission-specific contract is called an espionage agent or spy.

        Does it apply to amazon? I think it depends on what’s considered “confidential”. Which is not just about what one thinks is confidential but the context in which that information is used.

        Also, this is just the information they send back to you. It may only be due to GDPR. It does not mean there isn’t more.

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