confirms my instinct not to ever use any of this modern garbage
My brass keys never talk back to me.
If someone knocks on my door and nobody is home.
Does anybody but the knocker hear it.
A Smart Home isn’t so ‘smart’ now is it?....................
Sounds like this “smart” home has a retarded homeowner.
There really ought to be a lawyer out there willing to make a case of this. Another reason to avoid Amazon at any cost.
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If you’re stupid enough to let Amazon listen in on your life, you get stupid prizes.
i still find this difficult to believe ... if true, amazon would be opening themselves to monumental lawsuits from people hurt precipitously stumbling around in the dark, no heat, frozen pipes, missed calls, missed appointments, you name it ... plus, it SHOULD make them lose hundreds of thousands of “smart-home/alexa” customers ...
nonetheless, it’s utterly insane to pay to have a 1984-style device spying on you 24x7x365 ...
The question we should all ask is not, “did the actions justify them shutting down his house?” Rather, the correct question is, “Should they have the ability and right to shut down his house for ANY reason?”
And the answer to that one should be a resounding “NO!”.
Everybody with a Ring doorbell or Echo or Alexa in any yof their devices, should test out the ‘theory’ that Amazon woke personnel are monitoring your speech. Not necessarily racist language, but something like “Let’s go Brandon!”. Or ‘eff’ you Biden, or ‘go woke, go broke’, or FU Amazon.
The same thing will happen if all money becomes electronic.
Use cash, folks...alot. i use cash over credit cards all the time. Forget about the cash back. It is them paying you off.
Why didn’t Amazon bother with this supposed “investigation” before cutting off this guy’s access to his own home?
What can be dumber than following up burning your finger in a flame than doing it again...
I have heard that the devices are programmed to hear and record ‘racist’ words and phrases as well as other information.
FYI, Alexa, I was discussing SALTINES!!!!!
About 1.5 decades ago my wife retired, and I was retired.
After many discussions between us and some relatives and friends, we decided that we would like to stay in our home with good neighbors and be carried out feet first.
One of our sons is a construction project manager, and he and our contractor planned and made a lot of good suggestions.
They both agreed on having 2 heating and ac combos. One unit for where we live and one unit on the larger part of the house, often without anyone there.
They suggested a standard wall thermostat for the area we didn’t use except, when we have guests. Then, set it for 60 degrees, when we didn’t use it.
They both suggested a Nest unit in the area, we use the most, and to use it to keep comfortable.
There were big disagreements on having Nest Door watching units scanning outside the front, side and back doors due to what is discussed in this article. We went with other outer perimeter protection.
There is no way, we would allow any company to remote control our homes’ alarm/protection.
How to have a smart home without it spying on you
Some smart entrepreneur will eventually commercialize it. There's certainly a lucrative market of people who prefer conveniences that aren't tied to invasions of their privacy.
Why would the guy put that same tech back in his house after that? No sympathy from me.