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>>Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon? Who forced you to buy them? End of the story.

• angelzen 5y ago
  Who forced my neighbor to buy a Ring? Should we have any confidence that my neighbor's Amazon state of the art far field microphones don't also pick up the vibrations from my house / condo? There is nothing I can do about it short of becoming obscenely rich and buying a large enough property that Amazon's spying tech can't physically penetrate. Just to be clear, this is the corporation we're talking about: > Amazon says it does not eavesdrop on customers' conversations to target advertising at them, after it emerged it had patented "voice-sniffing" tech. > The patent describes listening to conversations and building a profile of customers' likes and dislikes. [...] > However, the patent describes an algorithm that can listen to entire conversations, using "trigger words", such as like and love, to build a profile of customers. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43725708 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43725708
  • pvaldes 5y ago
    This poses an interesting question: couldn't anybody disrupt this devices temporarily inside their property with a personal wifi jammer or something like that? What would be the alexa response in that case?
    • angelzen 5y ago
      I don't know the tech answer. Socially speaking, I feel rather strongly that it should be elementary courtesy to shut off the panopticon if I visit your spyware-infested house. I didn't consent to Amazon building a profile of me, can you please stop being a creepy asshole on behalf of Amazon?
    • elric 5y ago
      Any kind of jamming equipment is illegal in many places. So could you? Maybe. Should you? Well, I suspect you're more likely to get punished for jamming frequencies than for spying on people...