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You might have enjoyed the reaction from the normies at a party recently when they figured out that my family doesn't have any voice control anything in our hou

You might have enjoyed the reaction from the normies at a party recently when they figured out that my family doesn't have any voice control anything in our house and they started grilling my (comically, for the conversation, nontechnical) wife as to why. After much very polite dancing around the politics of "listen, it's just a personal choice and nobody here is judging anyone else, I just don't want my children playing arbitrary stupid music and buying things on my credit card", she finally capitulated and pointed out that "well it's listening, isn't it? my husband" (I was actively playing with children at the time), "would have better details, but if it's listening, that means it's recording and sending those recordings to Amazon or Google or whomever". At which point the lady of the house got up and turned her Alexa off. I attempted to not die laughing in the corner with the children.

autoexec 3y ago
> well it's listening, isn't it? It's listening, and so are contractors and employees. https://apnews.com/article/9000fd56f68043e48a2de8a08997a1fd https://apnews.com/article/9000fd56f68043e48a2de8a08997a1fd https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758491/microsoft-voice-recordings-data-human-review-disclosure-privacy-voice-assistant-machine-learning https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758491/microsoft-voice-r... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-contractors-regularly-hear-confidential-details-on-siri-recordings https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con... Companies will pinky promise that it doesn't happen, and say all kinds of things about their security polices and access controls, but spying on people's homes is basically the entire point of these devices. What else would you expect when you bug your home with an internet connected microphone from a company who makes their money collecting as much information about people as they can, especially their most private data. They're also collecting data on children, and even targeting kids. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon have already been caught and got nothing more than slaps on the wrist, but collecting kid's data is basically inevitable when the house is bugged and kids are intentionally playing with it.

autoexec 3y ago

> well it's listening, isn't it? It's listening, and so are contractors and employees. https://apnews.com/article/9000fd56f68043e48a2de8a08997a1fd https://apnews.com/article/9000fd56f68043e48a2de8a08997a1fd https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758491/microsoft-voice-recordings-data-human-review-disclosure-privacy-voice-assistant-machine-learning https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20758491/microsoft-voice-r... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-contractors-regularly-hear-confidential-details-on-siri-recordings https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con... Companies will pinky promise that it doesn't happen, and say all kinds of things about their security polices and access controls, but spying on people's homes is basically the entire point of these devices. What else would you expect when you bug your home with an internet connected microphone from a company who makes their money collecting as much information about people as they can, especially their most private data. They're also collecting data on children, and even targeting kids. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon have already been caught and got nothing more than slaps on the wrist, but collecting kid's data is basically inevitable when the house is bugged and kids are intentionally playing with it.