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[–] LightningAndTheSun 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It doesn't really matter. 99.99% of people have always-listening devices on them 99.99% of the time with cell phones.

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[–] Meme_Factory_1776 ago 

This is with supposed consent though.

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[–] Zoldam 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Pretty much every processor since 2010 has legal spyware built in.

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[–] RevDrStrangelove 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

"Soon"

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[–] goatmensch ago 

That's what happens when consumers let the deep state into their houses.

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[–] Ozzsanity 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I like telling Alexa I have the bodies of several children buried in my basement. Now before some of you goobers notify the FBI, It's a joke.

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[–] 18881648? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Dispatching CIA niggers now.

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[–] Sosacms 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Doesn't it have to always be listening in order to hear it's name?

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[–] prairie 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Exactly, they're literally just increasing the memory buffer size so that once it hears the key word, it can go back to what was said before it. Nothing to see here; move along.

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[–] theoldones 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

supposedly, when it's "off" its holding only short recordings to periodically check for the trigger phase

let's be honest though they already always listen

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[–] karmatic 3 points -3 points (+0|-3) ago 

The device does, they don't. It's not like you can't analyze the traffic going across your network, so they can't really keep it secret if they do listen in aggregate.

Any spying is going to be done on individual houses, under court order, not to everyone everywhere.

For one thing, if they get caught, people go to prison. Many states are two party states - everyone recorded must know. If someone has a guest over, even arguing that the homeowner "consented" won't stop them getting prosecuted for wiretap laws.

When you give a command, explicitly talking to the device, with the device lighting up and responding, it's easy enough to argue that everyone there is notified about the recording. Without giving a command, anyone visiting the house would have no reasonable expectation to know they were being recorded.

It would only take one prosecutor, and one State, to land someone in prison, or to get Amazon subpoenaed and heavily fined.

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[–] BlackAdamRedLantern 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Dropping the pretense altogether. Sales unfortunately won't take a hit as the convenience outweighs the sense of the consumers.

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[–] crazy_eyes 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

what convenience?

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[–] BlackAdamRedLantern ago 

Voice control of internet applications.

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[–] Plavonica 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

It really depresses me sometimes just how stupid and emotionally driven monkeys the vast majority of humanity is.

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[–] Alhambra 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

everything's a trade-off. high-trust societies create a gullible population. previous societies counteracted this by having boys go through trials to prove their manhood and independence, and women were protected at all times by a father or husband.

good thing we did away with all those backward traditions, eh?

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[–] Soyboy69 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Honestly are they even good for that? most people have a phone on them at all times and all kinds of other internet connected devices anyway.

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[–] HeebSlayer 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Because the sheep are lazy and can't be bothered to do anything for themselves.

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[–] karmatic 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

I use mine all the time. Most commonly I use it for playing audio, followed by changing the lights and the thermostat. It's nice not needing to get out of bed to adjust the temperature when I wake up hot.

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[–] Mayhawk 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It's fun when you're at someone else's house.

"Alexa, play ZZ Top."
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Alexa, turn the music up*."

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[–] privacy_first 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Your voice has been recorded, matched with your original voice

Big brother now knows where you are, even if you do not carry spyware cellphone

Welcome to Orwell 84

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