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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by mieseratte on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:36PM (#17145713)
> That pocket computer also has all the same potential threats to privacy. Somehow nobody cares about them, though.

This is just whataboutism.

We can complain about Amazon in a thread about Amazon without having to tackle a whole different issue.

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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by mikeash on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:51PM (#17145895)
It’s not “whataboutism” to point out that (almost all of) the people who can’t conprehend why anyone would ever have one of these devices have, in fact, already had one for years.
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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by mieseratte on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:47AM (#17152272)
There's a big difference between a device that occasionally listens and can easily be powered off or muffled and a device that is actively listening at all times and can easily "accidentally" capture your conversations.
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