Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

it’s funny/horrifying people think this wasn’t already happening

ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

If I had an Alexa box, the only privacy feature I would trust would be a switch to physically disconnect the microphone.

AA5B@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

That’s how they got me. I decided Siri was acceptable since I could set it to only listen when I pressed a button. Now somehow there’s an echo device in every room

LandedGentry@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y

As opposed to now when everything you say to your Echo is sent to Amazon, but Amazon gives you a placebo privacy button to pacify you.

thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

So now every word you utter that Bezos’ AI thinks is a trigger word will be auto reported to the Trump admin. Love!

Time to ditch those spyboxes

__________@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 1y

I think everyone should speak of uprising activities against the Trump regime to send them into a tizz.

blakenong@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y

Gotta find the immigrants and anti-capitalists

HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y

don't you have to pay for that privelege?