#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

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... felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense."

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Source:
pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…

#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

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... for a copyrighted work:

pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/rec…

That means that once Amazon reaches over the air to stir up the guts of your Echo, no one is allowed to give you a tool that will let you get inside your Echo and change the software back. Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it requires breaking the digital lock that controls access to the firmware, and that's a...

#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

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👉Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading👈

Is this globally?

How e. g. in the EU.
US laws don't apply there.

"If the #Echo is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it? Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct makes it a felony to "bypass an access control"...

pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…

'My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house.

I looked at her and said "Spyware". She laughed, I laughed, Alexa laughed, I shot Alexa, it was a good time."

#Amazon #spyware #Alexa #Echo #HomeAssistant
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}