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Huh? There's nothing in the article about a partnership (despite being called that in the headline). All I see is a police department that put out an Alexa app
by larrik 9y ago
Huh?
There's nothing in the article about a partnership (despite being called that in the headline). All I see is a police department that put out an Alexa app. I don't see anything wrong with, that. I'm a bit confused on how the Echo displays the pictures the article claims they broadcast, though.
- mtmail 9y agoThere's an Echo Show and Echo Spot product with a small display https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Show/dp/B01J24C0TI/ https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Show/dp/B01J24C0TI/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SQYXTW/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SQYXTW/
- maxxxxx 9y agoI think the main point is that police data is now stored on Amazon servers.
- mc32 9y agoDoesn't the USG put lots of citizen data on the AMZ gov cloud? Is that alarming in some way?
- maxxxxx 9y agoIt all depends on the details. For pure storage of encrypted data it's probably OK. But I guess for an Alexa app the data will go through Amazon's algorithms and it won't be clear what else they will do with the data.
- mseebach 9y agoWell, data that the Police is keen to share with as much of the public as possible, as quickly as possible. It hardly seems out of the realm of the reasonable to use Amazon for something like that.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThey also want to use Alexa for incoming crime reports and internal discussions.
- fzss_ 9y agoNo Alexa skill owners usually have there own backend
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThings that get published in news media all ready, wanted and missing reports, crime info, etc..
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoAlexa works on FireTV too FWIW.
- dang 9y agoThe article does say "in a partnership with Amazon developers", whatever that means.
- dogma1138 9y agoBecause the TV license covers iPlayer and other online services also it’s not just broadcast TV.