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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by JaRail on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:47PM (#18841846)
It's widely understood how the wake-word system works. You can monitor how much data is being uploaded and when. So no, it's not possible to just stream everything you say undetected.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by pvorb on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:56PM (#18842149)
I believe 99 percent of Alexa users wouldn't notice the increased data usage. If "three letter agencies" carefully choose who they spy on, it might go undetected for a very long time.
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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by discodave on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:17PM (#18842496)
If a three letter agency is interested in you then you would be lucky if your Alexa is the best bugging device they have.
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