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[–] HappyMealBullshit 1 point 12 points 13 points (+13|-1) ago
Before those commie bastards had to secretly install microphones and spying devices. Now Americans will pay top dollar for them and bring them home. How times have changed.
[–] phoenix883 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Jewish propaganda has gotten so much more effective than in Soviet times. They have dissolved so many rules, customs and dignity already, so people are demoralized and less or not principled anymore. People without dignity, principles and morals can be corrupted so easily.
[–] SpiderSpawnX 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We could all just btfo and go back to the olden days!
You really don't understand why people use them? Yet your using the internet?
[–] privacy_first 1 point 3 points 4 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
[–] ThisIsMyRealName ago
Like that guy who recorded all of his farts for months and posted them online.
[–] theoldones 0 points 3 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
[–] karmatic 3 points -3 points 0 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.
[–] BlackAdamRedLantern 0 points 2 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.
[–] Alhambra 0 points 1 point 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?
[–] crazy_eyes 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
what convenience?
[–] Shilly_Mc_Shillface 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Slippery slope is slicker than shit.
[–] RoundWheel 0 points 78 points 78 points (+78|-0) ago
It already does. Legal battles over the recordings for a murder have already taken place.
Anyone who believes it records part of the time today is an idiot.
[–] CameraCode0 1 point 20 points 21 points (+21|-1) ago
Well yeah, logically how else would it know that you've said it's name? It has to listen literally all the time, and anyone who thinks they are recording only after it gets a command is delusional. It doesn't have some manual switch that can be turned off; it's always collecting data.
[–] jqueso 4 points 2 points 6 points (+6|-4) ago
Listening isn't the same as recording and storing.
[–] Peki 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I know. What is this, an old announcement from the Alexa alpha test?
[–] clubberlang 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
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