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It's pretty clear... - When you say the wake word it starts. - The light is on when it is recording. - Once you say a phrase to activate an app it goes to th
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
It's pretty clear...
- When you say the wake word it starts.
- The light is on when it is recording.
- Once you say a phrase to activate an app it goes to that app.
That last one is a bit fuzzy. "Open APP_NAME", "tell APP_NAME" and a few other phrases will trigger it which may not be all that clear.
This change only effects stuff you say after you trigger the app.
And if Amazon doesn't obey it AND somehow no one can reverse engineer and detect that they aren't playing by the rules... someone at Amazon will whistle-blow and it will cost the company millions if not billions.
Sound the alarms when I developer reports receiving logs of conversations that weren't with their app. There are thousands of developers. One of them has to be honest.
The only concern I possibly have is if the governments orders them to activate it as a listening device, but this particular article is not about that.
This article is distorting the truth to get clicks. Period.
- CaptSpify 9y agoJust like nobody could create a back-door that would last for years on Yahoo's servers, or nobody could compromise customer data on Google's severs, because someone would tell. Except that those happened. I don't disagree that the article is a bit click-baity, but saying that this is impossible for Amazon to do because "they totally said they aren't" is fairly naive
- AlexandrB 9y ago> and it will cost the company millions if not billions. Honest question: has any company been successfully sued for privacy violations and paid out anywhere near this much? If so how long do you think the laws that allow such a lawsuit will persist in today's political climate? Also, note that Alexa's Terms of Use include a mandatory arbitration clause[1] which may prevent any effective recourse even if Amazon's entire trove of data was shared inappropriately. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201809740 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
- throwaway2016a 9y agoI wasn't talking about suites or fines. Amazon Prime is such a large business they can lose hundreds of millions just from cancelled subscriptions and list customers (and it would only take a 10% loss to do that).