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Originally Posted by haertig
Or so you think. If your car is less than ten years old, there's a pretty good chance that is an unadvertised mic in there as well. Your cellphone has a mic in it - and those can be turned on remotely. Doesn't do a lot of good to buy old gear - computers, TVs, DVRs - that don't have mics, or worry about an Echo device, when you carry a mic around in your pocket wherever you go.
Right now our technology/society is pretty much on the edge where we might say "That doesn't affect me", and the answer is "Yes it does, you just don't realize it". It's like the days of old when you could run into the woods and hide from authorities. Nowadays they'll find you in a heartbeat. Probably even by using your heartbeat, for all we know.
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The difference is that in my car (for example) I don't choose to have the mic there (if one exists). Buying an Echo is choosing to actively have your house bugged. Also the car is parked in the garage most of the time, so constant audio recording isn't happening in my house. Big difference. As for my phone, you're probably right, though I normally carry a flip phone, when I carry a phone at all. And here there is another difference. If someone wants to "listen in" on my conversations on the phone (or when I'm carrying it) they have to specifically target me. It's not the same as my audio being routinely collected 24/7 on Amazon's servers.
None of what you're saying about "what is" means I should invite even
more bugging into my home. That's throwing up your hands and giving up. With the FBI now targeting traditional Catholics, anti-abortionists and parents who go to school board meetings (under domestic "terrorist" laws), how long before they start requesting audio (or transcripts) from customers who've bought traditional Catholic books or books on winning back your school district? Or books on anti-abortion activism? (As three examples.) And Amazon
does routinely turn over this information to government entities.
Not for me. Your choice here is not my choice.
"Amazon confirms it holds on to Alexa data even if you delete audio files"
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20...ording-privacy