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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by mynameisvlad on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:10PM (#18730422)
It has 7 microphones and its only purpose is to record you, then respond to your request. That's literally the only thing the device is made to do.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by danso on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:38AM (#18734417)
And a laptop has a keyboard and memory to explicitly record what you write. That doesn't make installing a keylogger the same thing.
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