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Re:If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Device... by RugnirViking on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:28AM (#19748489)
a website quite literally is a remotely administered user input gatherer. I understand the concern about open microphones, but we've had this conversation about everything from laptop microphones to smart TVs before. I don't see how something like a new device changes the equation much compared to those things.
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Re:If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Device... by kermitismyhero on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:57AM (#19749455)
You and I and many others on internet forums may have had that conversation, but most non-geeks in my social circles haven't. Deliberately fucking with their voice assistants is a great way to quickly get them thinking hard about the issue with a minimum of conversation. It's past time to appeal to logic. It's now time to go straight for the emotional jugular by inducing some panic.
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