Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by eyjafjallajokul on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:32PM
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Maybe a naive question, but how are they any worse than having phones with non-transparent hardware/radio drivers in your living room? We seem to have accepted that risk, and even carry phones around everywhere.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by alpaca128 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:28PM
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We use smartphones for the same reason we don't avoid any non-free software like Stallman: a huge amount of additional possibilities. But what Alexa, Siri etc. offer is just a different way to use a limited set of existing features, in exchange for a much higher risk of a privacy breach.
Everyone needs to draw a line somewhere, I just don't see a reason to use voice assistants, definitely not with internet connectivity and where the company keeps all recordings for some reason.
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
by agildehaus on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:06PM
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They keep all recordings because they train their voice recognition off them. GOOG-411 kept all recordings too, for the same reason, as do hundreds of other services, but I don't recall anyone caring about them.
Google gives you a UI to view and delete your recordings and suddenly they're monsters.