[PherricOxide]

It’s called “supervised” machine learning for a reason...

The important part is that tens of millions of people used Alexa everyday and the utterances are anonymized before being used as training data, so you don’t know who said what, just that somewhere someone said “blah”.

[jammygit]

I'm sure their anonymization policy is un-misleading as their terms around whether employees listen to Alexa commands

[jstanley]

How have we got to the point where someone listening via a microphone inside my house is fine as long as it's not real-time?

[kevinsundar]

Everyone who owns one of these devices has given express permission and must know. Its fine since they have told Amazon its fine

[happytoexplain]

It's antagonistic and obviously misleading to state that a person has given explicit permission to a company without any further explanation when the reality you're basing that on is that the permission was in the wording of a contract that person clicked "agree" on.

You may insist all day that this person was irresponsible in examining the contract, which I will also disagree with, but claiming that they have given explicit permission is a lie on your part, and I would have a hard time believing that you don't know that.

[carnagii]

> utterances are anonymized

if only we had some technology that could identify a speaker based on their voice. oh, wait a second. but, lol, no, they aren't anonymized ... "recordings sent to the Alexa auditors don’t provide a user’s full name and address but are associated with an account number, as well as the user’s first name and the device’s serial number"