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What even is a “private speech”? Are you worried Alexa is listening to you as you rant to yourself?
by matai_kolila 4y ago
What even is a “private speech”? Are you worried Alexa is listening to you as you rant to yourself?
- olyjohn 4y agoIt's not a private speech, smartass. It's private speech. As in speech that is private. As in, when you're in the privacy of your own home, and you're expressing yourself to yourself or others, that would be private speech. Speech that is not directed to a public audience. Even when you talk to yourself in your mind, that is your own private speech.
- matai_kolila 4y agoNope, once you involve others, you involve consequences, as it is now their free speech (and free association) that often generates those consequences.
- throwaway23597 4y ago> Are you worried Alexa is listening to you as you rant to yourself? Well, I mean, quite literally, it is. It's always listening to you, and that's how it knows when you say "Alexa". And IIUC all these audio recordings are sent right to AWS and stored indefinitely.
- greesil 4y ago"Alexa, would you like to hear my racist tirade?
- throwaway23597 4y agoHaha, I can't imagine that this happens often. But that being said, there are documented instances of Alexa picking up sensitive conversations on accident, for example in this WaPo article where it was observed picking up sensitive information: "There were even sensitive conversations that somehow triggered Alexa’s “wake word” to start recording, including my family discussing medication and a friend conducting a business deal." https://archive.ph/c7G1c https://archive.ph/c7G1c