That’s why I’ll never get one of those things. Talk about loosing your privacy.
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.
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.
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.
The device must have misheard “I want to buy a Lexus”.
What about our phones. Technically, they could listen to us when we’re not aware.
I had a childhood friend named Alexa. These devices probably get her into all sorts of awkward situations.
Scary stuff.
And what is stopping it from happening intentionally as the system is hacked?
Or as the government takes control of the system?
James Wood tweeted out the best response to this..its like having James Clapper in a box
Unplug the danged thing unless you are using it. These things are not your friends.