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If it's true that all audio is being sent to Amazon, I will throw my Echo out today. That's a serious invasion of privacy and breach of trust.
by ahallock 10y ago
If it's true that all audio is being sent to Amazon, I will throw my Echo out today. That's a serious invasion of privacy and breach of trust.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoThe entire point of the Echo and similar devices is that it's always listening.
- Karunamon 10y agoThe device is always listening (unless you mute the mic), but that doesn't mean it's always sending a stream to Amazon. The device has to continuously process audio to listen for the wake word (upon which it does start sending everything to amazon) and a few seconds of the buffer before that so you can just bark out commands rather than waiting for it to acknowledge you.
- FungalRaincloud 10y agoListening locally for a trigger word != listening, recording and transmitting. The point of the echo is to have an on-demand voice channel to an artificially intelligent assistant.