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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today (techxplore.com)
submitted 3 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.

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[-] alykanas@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 months ago

Did anyone else assume this from start ?

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

How about things you say near an Alexa smart speaker?

[-] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago

It's the same picture.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They doing it starting now? And not since the Alexa?

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

They are removing the "process recordings locally" option, which 0.03% of users had enabled. Not much of a change.

[-] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Just regularly tell it to go fuck itself and tell it to tell Jeff Bezos to fuck himself.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I wonder what would happen if you recorded a few dozen phrases like that, and then had them play randomly for eternity into a few Alexa devices. Would Amazon ban you?

[-] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was kind of thinking along those same lines, but what if millions of people did it.... Would it matter? Could a protest like that work or make Amazon see the error of their ways? I doubt it, but it would be fun nonetheless.

[-] omega_x3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Alexa, fuck you bezos, you and your AI can eat a full bag of dicks.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Alternatively, don’t have one cos he doesn’t give a shit since you already paid him

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So should I stop telling my Alexa all the hypothetical ways I would kill Jeff Bezos then?

[-] f34r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

What makes you think this wasn’t the case the whole time? Try speaking with it off-line. There is no off-line. Don’t be naive.

…Good thing though, is that nobody cares about your data except you. It’s being sent over purely because of the compute resources required.

[-] lzs_jinxin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

will ?

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