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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 (arstechnica.com)

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Good thing we canceled Prime, deleted our account, and got rid of that bitch.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

We did the same. Amazon can get fucked.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

They can go suck a fuck

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

What are the chances they haven't been doing this the whole time?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

%100

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

This sounds like a job for malicious compliance! Anybody got a Lenny bot for Alexa?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Everything you say to ~~your~~ our Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Everything you say ~~to your Echo~~ will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What is the temperature, how is the weather… probably like 80% of other Alexa users

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

ALEXA STAHP!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

"Raise volume"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This cannot be legal... at least not in the EU.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This isn't at all surprising or really alarming to me as read. Yeah, you can't process locally, but I'm surprised you could at all before. I don't believe you've ever been able to with Google.

What I'm more concerned about is how long until it's always on recording - if it's not already.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Google's speakers have had local voice processing for basic commands for years now. Things like toggling power on lights or changing TV volume. They're also expanding that locally processed control into then being run through the Matter standard so the whole chain is done locally. I have personally verified the local processing on my own network traffic.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"ohhh, our wake word detector is a little too sensitive, but don't mind it!"

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