Posted on 07/12/2019 1:58:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Hey, there’s no penguin on the television set. Perhaps it already exploded.
Can it take a roundhouse kick to the “head?”
all other Amazon devices keep showing up in the news for intrusions like recording conversation (many owners keep an Alexa device in their bedrooms)
Well, that can come in handy for notifying and reminding people they’re running low on toilet paper, then it can automatically order more, from Amazon.com of course.
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Actually, Amazon sells Dash buttons to reorder products at the touch of a button. I don’t trust those Dash buttons as they have pushed to get people to Dash buttons in the laundry (reorder detergent), the office (printer ink), the kitchen (many items), bedroom etc. So you have these devices all over the house that look like buttons and if you see that you are out of a product, just push the button and your order is on its way. TOTAL surveillance. The have devices to connect to your TV (so they know what your viewing habits are) and let you read books (Amazon knows to what page you read and if you use hi-lighter to mark certain sections)
One woman wrote online that she was sobbing and Alexa said, “Don’t cry. Everything is going to be okay.” Freaked said woman out - she was done with Alexa. (I vividly recall reading about it but can’t find the link)
Another said Alexa recorded her conversation and shared it with a random friend. He called to tell her to disconnect Alexa as he had heard her entire conversation:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/amazon-alexa-secretly-recorded-womans-150900987.html
Amazon replied that it takes “Customer privacy very seriously...blah blah blah”. There’s a meme out there that said, “I told a joke, my friend laughed, Alexa laughed, Siri laughed.
This woman asked if Alexa would lie to her, then asked if Alexa worked for the CIA. Alexa went offline/shutdown etc. Seems to mean the Alexa AI had a gap in “the narrative.”
Oh and Alexa laughs for no reason while not otherwise in use:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/03/08/amazons-alexa-is-laughing-at-users.cnnmoney
Alexa called the cops when a woman was being assaulted - they are pushing it for a security system now. But can’t Amazon also hear if YOU called the cops and why, or if you called a confidential hotline to report Amazon (or government agencies) for illegal activity? Amazon sells Echo connect which you use via your home phone.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9495444/amazon-alexa-domestic-violence-new-mexico
If you search Amazon Devices on the Amazon.com website, you can see they have an INDOOR camera surveillance product (for your security!), and smart devices that can add voice control to any electrical outlet. Those smaller devices and relays like the DASH button probably require you to have Alexa or Echo. Surveillance 24/7
Vaccuum attachment?
Cynthia Rhodes was a babe.
Thanks for reminding me :(
Does Howard Wolowitz know about this?
Right at keyhole height. Sneaky thing will be following you around 24/7 into the bedroom to watch you sleep or peek over the foot rail as your make whoppie with the wife. Then it’ll be following you into the shower and ask if you need help getting your backside. Of course, all the time sending video data back to some perv in Amazon’s basement.
NO THANKS.
It won’t have to guess your income. It’ll get it off your online banking.
Another go bye-bye job would be those online credit card porn sites where the customer tells the gal what he wants her to do. Pervs can get all the porn they’d ever want by getting jobs at Amazon data collection.
You are right I’m afraid.
In my case, I often will use words in a text that are unique to the US Navy (nothing improper or classified). Almost invariably, when I take the phone back out of my pocket, the phone is already on as if ready to snap a picture.
I’m sure ‘someone’ wants to know the surroundings of where I am located at the time. It’s disturbing really.
I’d like a robot that looks and acts like a friendly, slobbery, adorable English bulldog. We can call him Winston.
The cyber bulldog will outlive you — an important consideration for seniors. I’d love to get a pet, but what happens if I become disabled or die? Not exactly kind to the animal.
Plops his dirty little behind on the kitchen counter!
Gene Simmons was pretty good in that. Not a bad movie for its time. The heat-seeking bullets were damn scary.
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Re: all other Amazon devices keep showing up in the news for intrusions like recording conversation (many owners keep an Alexa device in their bedrooms)
Well, that can come in handy for notifying and reminding people they're running low on toilet paper, then it can automatically order more, from Amazon.com of course.
The little perv will record everything that happens in your home
All the while reporting back to Amazon.
I know I was!
Bill Clinton pre-ordered one. With a wig. Any color.
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