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It looks neat and I'd love to see more home robots! Sadly, given Amazon's track record I'm certain it will spy on its users and report back to the mothership a

• maldeh 5y ago
  Is this referring to Alexa, or some other product? Have there been any major notable reports about spying happening with Echos? With regards to data collection for ads, personalized recommendations and such, are there any major concerns that don't also extend to ex:- visiting a website with a tracking cookie on? (Don't get me wrong, I'm very wary of this product after Sidewalk [0] which I don't trust from a security perspective wherein as a bug could allow _third parties_ to snoop on me, but I'm just missing what people are talking about w.r.t. surveillance by Amazon itself) [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/understanding-amazon-sidewalk https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/understanding-amazon-s...
  • arpyzo 5y ago
    I should have posted references to back up my concerns. Here are just a few: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-you-this-whole-time/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-h... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/technology/personaltech/ring-doorbell-camera-spying.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/technology/personaltech/r... https://www.bullguard.com/blog/2015/07/did-you-know-that-your-kindle-is-spying-on-you-here-is-how-to-stop-it https://www.bullguard.com/blog/2015/07/did-you-know-that-you... (Edited to fix link formatting)