Posted on 09/04/2020 11:09:36 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Amazon has rolled out a whole-building version of its Alexa AI voice assistant for landlords, billing ‘Alexa for Residential’ as extending smart-home functionality to renters – tenants’ consent apparently not required.
The e-commerce giant announced Alexa for Residential on Thursday, describing it as a feature “that makes having an Alexa-enabled home accessible for anyone, regardless of whether they rent or own their home.” Tenants can link up their own Amazon account, but if they don't have one, no problem – they'll be placed on the building's system.
Landlords, Amazon explains, will have the option to provide “custom voice experiences for their residents,” which could easily translate to charging a higher rent for the ability to submit maintenance requests, reserve amenities like laundry or gym time, pay their rent, and so on using the AI device.
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I was wondering when Amazon was going to get into MDU’s
I would disable Alexa
“COVID-19 ... shows why [owning a house] might not be such a good idea for many retirees.”
Why’s that? Is it because a lot of people want to move from where they’re now living?
So, we just switched back to Dish yesterday and the Voice Remote requires an internet Google interface.
After reading the conditions, we will be foregoing the Google SNOOP AND SPY interface.
By “latter” I meant moving into retirement housing, not a single family house. Given how politicians locked down these areas and in the cases of nursing homes force them to accept ill patients, I would prefer not living in that type of environment unless I absolutely had no other choice.
Incorrect.
As a landlord I can tell you that my tenants have rights that I may not abridge. Bugging their home without their permission is one of them.
I was speaking in moral terms not legal ones. The law gives tenants far more rights than they are morally entitled to.
Just because someone rents a house from me I have no right to bug their home. That would be sick.
But then I have old fashioned morals.
I'm not.
"Just because someone rents a house from me I have no right to bug their home. That would be sick."
It's not bugging the home. It's installing a digital assistant.
It's not a secret. If I choose to live in a home that has a pre-installed digital assistant, that's my free choice.
You're talking as if you were planting hidden microphones, which this is nothing like.
I own mine free & clear. Not a tenant since May 1966
Does it pick up the sound of shot gun blasts directed at it?
Won’t work in hurricane country!
The outlying area outside Alexandria, Louisiana, after Hurricane Laura, is not expected to have cable internet for at least another two weeks. Some areas around town are to be without power for another week.
It’ll be advertised as a feature. All the smart home benefits (all that remote control stuff) and automatic maintenance tickets via Alexa. It’ll make them luxury apartments and people will pay more.
If I choose to live in a home that has a pre-installed digital assistant, that's my free choice.
If you want to install it then yes it is. It is also your right to leave your shades up while you are walking around in the nude. It is not my right to install smart glass that will go transparent at random intervals.
You're talking as if you were planting hidden microphones, which this is nothing like.
Yes, it is exactly like.
The devise is always on, something that most people do not know. Taking advantage of people's ignorance for your voyeuristic pleasure is sick.
There is just too much potential for abuse on both sides for it to be otherwise.
Everytime I encounter Alexis I ask if they’re scared of big brother listening in. They always say ,”no”.
So I shout, “where should the bomb be placed in the white house”. For some reason they don’t see the humor in it.
Mine never came out of the box. I won it at some work thing
Let’s do a Freeper Poll: How many of us still regularly buy from Amazon?
Guilty
“Gubmit knows more about you than you know about yourself.
I agree.”
You’d think so, but here I am STILL waiting on my COVID-19 stimulus check that virtually everybody I ever spoke/speak to about it got theirs in May - at the latest.
Yes it would be. It's your house (as the landlord) and renters can choose to rent that house or not.
"Yes, it is exactly like. The devise is always on, something that most people do not know."
No, that's silly. It is nothing like planting secret mics in your tenant's house so you can secretly listen in. Is a digital assistant connected to Amazon.
You are being pointlessly argumentative about a pointless subject. I think we're done here. I won't be responding to anything else.
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