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Maybe I'm old but i still really don't understand the appeal of a device that monitors and datamines all the communication in your home so you can buy products
by grillvogel 11y ago
Maybe I'm old but i still really don't understand the appeal of a device that monitors and datamines all the communication in your home so you can buy products more easily.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoNot sure just how seriously this is meant to be taken, but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa" (and recognition of that is handled in the hardware, locally - if you're worried about devices with net access and microphones, you'll need to keep your phone turned off at home, too). It's fair to assume that once you are interacting with it Amazon mines at least some data, however.
- grillvogel 11y ago>but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa" then how does it know when you say Alexa?
- dbbk 11y agoBecause the code that understands 'Alexa' is hardcoded into the device. Once it hears that word, that's when audio starts getting sent over the Internet to Amazon's servers.