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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by awqrre on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:27AM (#11223089)
And devices that listen to you 100% of the time is yet another privacy concern... even if they don't send everything to a remote server.
Re:Amazon Echo Dot by qznc on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:42AM (#11223365)
If you have a human assistant who does that job, he also listens 100% of the time.
Re:Amazon Echo Dot by flavor8 on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:52AM (#11223658)
But he or she is less vulnerable to being automatically hacked by a three letter agency, foreign government, and/or hacker gathering data for identity theft.

The privacy concern _isn't_ necessarily about having something to hide. It's about the consistent hacking of major systems, and exposure of personal data.

Re:Amazon Echo Dot by kbutler on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:05AM (#11223728)
And you don't think there are privacy concerns with that? It is a /very/ intimate relationship, and generally requires some ritualized/formalized interaction, and a very high degree of trust.