All your cameras and microphones are belong to us!
System administrator Winston Smith told me it doesn’t spy on you.
One week is nothing. I would think over 90% of Amazon customers would not hear anything about this until long after that time has expires. Most will never know anything about the fact that they could have opted out.
All this is , of course, by design.
“We sent you an email. Didn’t you read it?”
I will only start worrying when they start installing these things on bears and moose...
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Only ignorant people even use those devices.
I will never knowingly own such an invasive snooping device.
I bought a bluetooth speaker a few years ago.
I had to really search to find one that wasn’t a wifi spying platform.
I just wanted a speaker, and it works great.
Anyone with a half a brain would not buy one of those spy devices in the first place
Big Sis wants you.
too bad for me, don’t do business with Amazon. guess i’m just not networkable for Big Sis.
I’m so glad that I own nothing of Amazon’s surveillance equipment.
I keep my laptop camera taped and all they would see with my phone is the ceiling, because I keep it docked.
Some people on fixed data plans are going to get bushwhacked by this theft and find that their neighbors watched a movie on their wifi.
That feature is disabled by default for us. Doesn’t really seem like a big problem at the moment. For us, at least.
People with the Silver model will trouble turning this off :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
FWIW
I’ve checked my Alexa app several times in the last few days and it was disabled to start with and has stayed disabled.
The disclaimer on the page says that you can update your setting (turn it on or off) at any time, not just before next week.
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It’s a broad-based exploit looking for a place to happen. I don’t let this garbage in my home. I laugh at friends when they show me all the cool stuff they can do with Dots all over their homes. Fools, all of them.
first they foist this crap on folks who aren;t too tech savvy, but who think it would be a good idea, then when millions have the devices, then they fairly sneakily tie it all into a network knowing that most people won’t even get the memo that it’s happening- or bother to take the time to opt out if they do know
So these devices already had the hotspot functions? And they’re now to be activated?
Will the vaxholes get activated as well?
I never did trust what those smart electric meters, and now gas meters, are capable of in the future either.