[atoav]

I somehow disagree. In a free democratic society every citizen should be able to operate with the assumption that very invasive practice is banned, unless you opt into it with clear intent.

Most people who got an Alexa have probably no idea how it works and whether it is invasive or not and they quite certainly operate it under the assumption that no real human will listen in to the conversations they have in the presence of their electronic assistant.

Unless Amazon made a strong effort to communicate this in the clearest possible way (e.g. by putting a "our employes may listen in to any conversation" front and center on every place they sell it), they are in my opinion at least guilty in a ethical sense here. Legal is a different thing, but you can be operating totally legal, while still beeing ethically wrong.

[SlowRobotAhead]

>In a free democratic society every citizen should be able to operate with the assumption that very invasive practice is banned

The words free society and everything you don’t agree with should be banned seem like opposite things.

The reality is if you put an always on microphone in your home - you should absolutely expect someone could be listening. At not point did they promise you that wouldn't happen.