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Your phone is always listening for the command "ok, Google" or "Siri" in the exact same way the echo is listening for "Alexa". So there's not a huge difference.
by jhall1468 8y ago
Your phone is always listening for the command "ok, Google" or "Siri" in the exact same way the echo is listening for "Alexa". So there's not a huge difference. They are the same thing.
- ryandrake 8y agoYou know how my phone is configured? Mine doesn’t respond to any of those phrases, so I conclude there is a small, but nonzero chance that it is listening to everything I do. Conversely, the sole purpose of an Echo is to listen to its environment and take actions based on what it hears. There is a high probability that it is listening at all times. You don’t see the difference?
- jhall1468 8y agoNo, because much like your phone the Alexa can be muted and entirely controlled from the very device you have deemed "safe". You don't need voice commands, they just happen to make it better than a typical bluetooth powered speaker. Still doesn't change the fact that placement of the Alexa is stationary, so your phone (regardless of how low the probabilities are) is still a considerably more "high risk" device in terms of what it could pick up than an Alexa. To me this just sounds like another person in a whole line of them that screams about privacy unless they have to give up something that's extremely valuable to them. The Alexa isn't valuable to you. Your phone sure is.