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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today (techxplore.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the popular devices.

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[–] f34r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

What makes you think this wasn’t the case the whole time? Try speaking with it off-line. There is no off-line. Don’t be naive.

…Good thing though, is that nobody cares about your data except you. It’s being sent over purely because of the compute resources required.