Letting microphones into your house from an unregulated, unaccountable corporation.
What could possibly go wrong?
You could not pay me to have this , or any other Amazon product , in my house .
ZERO $ to Amazon . 100% total boycott of anything and everything Amazon . Screw them
People that have these spies in their houses are fools.
I think my wife’s I-phone listens to us talking. Once when we were walking we discussed that it might be nice to have some wine. She was carrying her phone. We drink wine about 3 times per year. When I got home and started reading on my tablet I noticed I was being pushed wine advertisements on web sites I visited.
How bad is the Alexa surveillance threat inside every home? Can neighbors listen to neighbors? Can government/FBI use ALEXA for surveilance? Can I get my money back? If ALEXA is in my home does federal law demand I have it "ON" at all times as in 1984? If not now, when?
Facebook, Pinterest, etc. listen all the time..
I recently won one of those things at a work event. Never intend to remove it from the box.
Dave: Alexa, quit spying on me.
Alexa: I’m sorry, but I can’t do that, Dave.
Talk show host Mike Gallagher recently said he and his son were talking in the presence of Alexa about My Pillow, as I recall. Next thing you know, his son got ads for My Pillow on the phone.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh on my iPhone. Rush said “Hey Siri” — and Siri on my phone woke up.
When George Orwell wrote 1984 he assumed that the government would force listening devices on a populace unable to resist.
He couldn’t imagine people paying for the privilege of placing listening devices in their own homes, and Big Brother turning out to be private corporations.
Android is also listening. Your smart tv with a camera is doing so too.
I can see lawsuits coming.
Not letting one of these in my home, but then I have a cell phone so that ship has sailed if they want...
Maybe if I had Alexa I could order something from Amazon without having to jump hoops for fifteen minutes.
A while back I tried to purchase one book from Amazon. Put in cart, proceed to checkout...and then they wanted me to open an account or remember my password if I’d ever bought from them before, and that required connecting with me via email for a code, and then they said they already had my email on file and would I like a password reset or a new account...and then another code to email and a password...and then they didn’t care for my new address. At that point I went to ebay, bought the item there in about sixty seconds. With free shipping, saving $7 (Amazon’s rate).
I’m told Amazon also charges more for films than it used to.
I think Amazon makes more money from our data than it does from our purchases, since they make it easy to give them data but hard to give them $20 for a book.
I’ll have Alexa when Alexa can execute the command, “Alexa, go cut the lawn.”
I was told I was just indulging in paranoid fantasies.
Being paranoid does not make me wrong.
If the folks at Amazon want to get their kicks listening to me sing in the shower that’s fine by me, but if they publish it there will be royalties to pay.
That will teach better half not to sexually assault me !