Just unplugged Alexa

[Jer]

FYI, you can go into your Alexa/Amazon app and disable human review of any recordings Alexa/Amazon makes. Pretty simple actually. Not sure what all the fuss is about regarding privacy.

We use ours extensively for controlling smart home devices and asking questions and what not. Anything that isn't set up to automatically work can be controlled via our voice. It's great and the wife who normally isn't as receptive to tech also has come to love using them on a regular basis.

[FoxtArt]

FYI, you can go into your Alexa/Amazon app and disable human review of any recordings Alexa/Amazon makes. Pretty simple actually. Not sure what all the fuss is about regarding privacy.

We use ours extensively for controlling smart home devices and asking questions and what not. Anything that isn't set up to automatically work can be controlled via our voice. It's great and the wife who normally isn't as receptive to tech also has come to love using them on a regular basis.

Well... IIRC CALEO 1994/1996 requires telecom providers to install surveillance equipment. So, unless you are VPN chaining, I doubt the NSA cares about privacy settings. And yeah, I'm aware of HTTPS. I'm also 99% sure the NSA has a backdoor to HTTPS. The prior backdoor was already discovered and patched after what, a decade?

Also to, ETA, the human review isn't the problem. It's the "big data" warehousing and AI processing that results in a high potential for things you've casually said being archived for... forever. The last thing I'm worried about is a guy on headphones chuckling and saying "heh, he made a small wiener joke".