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Originally Posted by Quoth
There is a difference: It's been proved that Amazon collects Alexa audio even without the wake word. It's designed to do it.
If I thought any Andriod tablet was listening and sending the audio, I'd fit a switch on the mic or remove it. There have been TVs that listen and feed. No evidence that Android generally is doing it, though Google is collectlng plenty of data.
In general, unlesss you are Chinese, or a special target, the big USA corporations are far worse than China at "spying" on you.
I can see no utility at all to an Amazon Echo or similar device. The Stazi would have loved them. Yet people pay for them.
Also my so called "Smart" TVs have no WiFi Password nor ethernet. I turn off wifi on any device when I don't need it (and my Router confirms it truns on / off).
There is a huge difference between stuff that where it's even admitted it sends everything to servers (Alexa, smart TVs etc) and a regular phone/tablet.
There are issues with Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, but an Echo is specifically designed to need Amazon's servers and send what it "hears" to them. Similarly I'd not have Meta's Portal Tablet.
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Pretty much every tablet and smartphone has some assistant out of the box that's essentially the same as Alexa. Google Assistant, Siri, Bixby, etc.
I doubt you've audited TCL's additions to Android, so how do you know it's not listening?
And no it hasn't been proved that echoes are always listening. Occasionally there are false positives and they catch non-command related things. Can happen on phones/tablets too.