Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by sdenton4 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:32PM (#17146898)

AFAIK, pocket dials have mainly been reduced by improvements in phones, rather than changes in user behavior; if the camera just sees inside of a pocket, it's unlikely to be an intentional button press.

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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by zymhan on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:34PM (#17146917)

I mean way back in the day when people had candy-bar phones and had to remember to enable the keypad lock :D

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Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out ... by EvanAnderson on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:04PM (#17147207)

I made a number of emergency calls from my pocket on my Nokia 1100 even with key lock enabled. It was infuriating. It happened once when I was having a heated argument with somebody and it took some work to convince the dispatcher not to send a law enforcement officer. (There was nothing physical happening and no threats of violence, but we were speaking very sharply to each other.) I do not miss that about my Nokia 1100 at all.

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