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Re:Amazon's Alexa now at Marriott hotels by e1ven on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:34PM (#17357582)
Personally, I disable "Hey, Siri" and other watchword interfaces.

That said, I think that if someone complains about X, and you reply "But what about Y?!" you're not really addressing their concern.

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Re:Amazon's Alexa now at Marriott hotels by piptastic on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:41PM (#17357653)
If a person complains about X while actively doing/using Y, then they are not really addressing their concern either.
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Re:Amazon's Alexa now at Marriott hotels by dual_basis on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:09PM (#17361037)
I don't understand this. Presumably you disable "Hey Siri" because you are concerned it is doing more than Apple claims, but if that's the case then why do you trust that disabling it actually disables the parts they don't tell you about?
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Re:Amazon's Alexa now at Marriott hotels by X6S1x6Okd1st on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:38PM (#17357624)
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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