[taxcontrol]

As a security professional, I do not recommend ANY listening devices. I even turn off my phone’s verbal command capability.

[MV=PY]

"As a security professional, I do not recommend ANY listening devices. I even turn off my phone’s verbal command capability."

Ditto. The amount of personal data that consumers are willing to give away in exchange for convenience is unbelievable.

[mass55th]

I even turn off my phone’s verbal command capability.

Ditto here. I have a Kindle Fire but have Alexa turned off. I've never used Siri on my iPhone or MacAir. I don't see the need to tell any device to do what I can do myself. As I said on another thread a while back, unless Siri and Alexa can run to the bathroom for me every hour and empty my bladder without me having to get up to do it, then there's nothing of worth they can offer me.

[tinyowl]

Unplugged my Echo and she's going to the dump. Weather on command and timers and things were convenient, but now that it's unplugged, I feel like it's just me and my cat again in the house ... and I am not a paranoid person by any means. Just having to wonder is bad enough ... it's lurks there in your subconscious as a mild self editing filter, and I think if you have one, you just accept that any loophole around the legalities, plus some not legal loopholes, they are exploiting.

If they can get their fake FISA's on Trump, they can get allowances to collect data for, say, 'protecting the country from Covid outbreak by monitoring mass trends.' They would claim it's sanitized and anonymous but ... I'm in software ... laws and procedures are a thin wall when money and power are there for the grabbin'.

[Texan5]

“ANY listening devices”.

Likewise-both my bro, and a cousin are LEOs-they have some experience with surveillance, so from what I’ve heard from them, I don’t even turn on my phone-and certainly not the GPS on it-unless I need to for work-and certainly no devices are in my home-Alexa, please spy on me...

I drive an old 4x4, so no spying GPS there, either-I prefer to decide who knows where I am...

[desertfreedom765]

The industry calls these devices “Smart Speakers” but what they really are is “Smart Microphones”.

People really are gullible.