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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 vibr
by 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.
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> 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 agoThis 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 agoI 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 agoAny 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...