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Re:Not OK, Google by jedberg on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:05PM (#12645055)
I don't know about Google, but I know that Siri and Alexa only collect and send data when you ask it to.

You can monitor the traffic of the Alexa and see that it is only sending data when you ask it to do something, and furthermore, Amazon gives you a log of everything you've said to it and it recorded.

Re:Not OK, Google by mikepurvis on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:41PM (#12645441)
And you can also get a log of everything you've ever ordered from Amazon, but there are still loads of other signals which aren't visible to you, as evidenced by the fact that you browse a product on amazon.com today, and now for the next week, you see that product advertised back to you all over the web.

Others may be reviews left, reviews voted on, prime video consumed, audio/video/book samples consumed, kindle activity, how long you spend on a product page, how you scroll on it, the breadcrumb of how you got there, and surely dozens more.

Re:Not OK, Google by zardeh on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:20PM (#12645245)
Home claims this as well, and I for example have a log of audio clips and transcriptions of all of my google now searches.