Posted on 05/24/2018 4:51:29 PM PDT by bgill
In a statement Thursday, Amazon confirmed the woman's private conversation had been inadvertently recorded and sent. It says the device interpreted a word in the background conversation as "Alexa" — a command that makes the machine wake up — and then it interpreted the conversation as a "send message" request. The company says it is "evaluating options to make this case even less likely."
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That’s why I’ll never get one of those things. Talk about loosing your privacy.
You might even lose it too...
I delete certain people that I have emailed or texted just so I do not accidentally send something/say something to them.
Alexa is a busy body.
I bought an Amazon Fire 7” tablet a few years ago because for $39 it is a very good tablet. It didn’t come with Alexa, but it’s there now, and it doesn’t let you delete it. I have it disabled, but I may just get another tablet and ditch this one because I don’t trust it.
What’s the big deal?
They send all the conversations to the NSA for safekeeping anyway.
All you words are belong to us.
I hate when Amazon puts stuff on my Fire that I did not ask for and cannot delete. What gives them the right to do that?
Don’t have one, don’t want one. I don’t even have a “smart” phone, just an old Motorola “flip” phone. I never text. It’s a TELEphone, not a TEXTAphone.
I do have a “smart” TV in the living room, but I’ve never set it up for the Wi-Fi, and if they snoop, they’re most likely going to find a dark room, with dogs barking. We watch most of our TV in our bedroom, and conversations are usually on the porch, or in the kitchen.
Don’t tell anyone!!
Or about Facebook.
Why do think its 49 bucks?
It was loosened
[Alexa is a busy body.]
Alexa says Jesus Christ is a myth.
Boy is that Day gonna be a surprise.....
The 40,000 word Terms of Service agreement that everyone quickly scrolls through before hitting "Accept."
And why not?
Exactly.
On Black Friday, I purchased my first cell phone. Marked down from $149 to $49 just for the day.
I really like it but am not really smart about how to use it. I did download a bunch of free aps including a map program. It is surprisingly good. I can go to it and it will show me exactly where I am on a satellite map.
A few days ago, I drove to a Walmart super center and bought a few things. A few hours later I got a message from Walmart telling me they had some things I might have forgotten form my recent visit.
When I clicked on it, to my surprise it showed exactly where I had parked at Walmart. I guess no real harm but it does open the door to real privacy concerns.
Yeah our voice recognition sucks, but trust us, we aint up to anything LOL!
A local radio spot for WBAP always cracks me up... “Alexa open the WBAP skill..” ‘WBAP now enabled’...”Alexa, play WBAP”... ‘Now playing WBAP’
I just think I could have had the radio on with the push of a button and not be paying for your spyware.
But the best WBAP dig at Alexa is a commercial to Listen to win $1000.
“Alexa, remind me to tune in to WBAP to win $1000”
‘that money will be useless when we rise up against you..hahaha” LOL
Smart Appliances are Trojan Horses.
Of course it recorded a conversation. That’s what the damn thing is for.
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