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.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
it’s funny/horrifying people think this wasn’t already happening
If I had an Alexa box, the only privacy feature I would trust would be a switch to physically disconnect the microphone.
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
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.
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
I think everyone should speak of uprising activities against the Trump regime to send them into a tizz.
Gotta find the immigrants and anti-capitalists
don't you have to pay for that privelege?