Don't forget to check your Amazon account for any past voice recordings and transcripts and get those deleted too

#UnplugTrump

You might be over-reacting.

"Local processing of voice recordings was only available on three Echo devices – Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15 – and only for customers in the U.S. with devices set to English."

theverge.com/news/630049/amazo…

Amazon is ending the option to not send Echo voice recordings to the cloud

The little-known setting only worked on three Echo devices, but soon it won’t work on any.

^{Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)}

@matherion

Pay Bezos to snitch on you to Trump. What an amazing deal

Good to know I didn't want to have anything to do with these 'smart' speakers...
No "Alexa", any.

In the end, Android on my mobiles was already more than enough and Google also went from bad to worse in the time I've had this Xperia XZ2 Premium.

my experience seeing your post:

1. Fuck Amazon.
2. Privacy issue? And?
3. How about just not using…
4. [reading your list]
5. Oh…😂…yes. YES!

Seriously. It’s weird to think that people feel safe using any AI controller. Your list is the only proper response to those devices.

Mail from #Amazon:

Dear Amazon customer,
You know that option that you checked in your User T&C, "Please encrypt & protect my personal data"? Well we have decided to change that to "Please do whatever the fµck you like with all my personal data".🙂
Thank for your naivety in continuing to be a profitable product for our company.

How dystopian.

'We are putting you under permanent voice surveillance and have disabled any opt-out options. Have a nice day. Amazon.'

or if you're the nerd/hacker type, do something neat with it instead of throwing it out, by installing Linux which solves the problem!

wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Ama…

I had to get an echo dot years ago to test interoperability with a customer device that had Alexa integration.

Since the project wrapped up it lives in a shelf bin with a red and white striped warning label and a LOTO cover on the power plug.

Respectfully, this is terrible advice.

You should hit them with a big hammer and take the bits to your local electronics recycling or hazardous waste collection site, as appropriate.

would I be right in thinking that this means all audio is sent to the Amazon cloud in case it is an Alexa command? In other words it is the cloud that decides if Alexa is being commanded?

Your recommended actions seem to be quite correct.

#susiedent
@neil

I propose an evolutionary sibling to the word `floccinaucinihilipilification` : to estimate as worthless.

`floccicakiturmaperambulification` : to recognize an enterprise's positively spun, but unmistakeable step towards further enshitification. We see you!

@druid there’s that old joke:

> a tech enthusiast has a fully automated smart house
> a tech expert has a single printer, and a gun next to it just in case it starts to make strange noises

That a bit tongue in cheek, and offence is not meant to people who do do the full smart house thing. That’s been me for many years. Plus I’ve seen a few open source projects for smart homes that do look practical.

But I know that after recent events my life plans have gone very quickly from “a smart house would be awesome” to “next time my hardware needs replacing I’m slimming down to a dumb phone, a mobile 4g access point and a laptop running Linux”.

This is why I never got an Alexa or an Echo device. It was inevitable (if not already happening).

Need the lights? Switch is on the wall.

Never bought one.

Yes, I have an Apple speaker, but I only use it as a speaker, and for that it sounds very good. Never use it as a listener.

I'll drink to the number of times I told people in my circles over the years this was coming, only to be brushed off with "stop being so conspiratorial, Amazon's not some front for Doctor Evil"

Who is Jeff Bezos for $500, Alex....