[rev12]

I think a lot of people here are under the assumption that voice commands, on any device, have the potential to be human reviewed. I am not sure whether or not the general public has that same assumption.

That being said, my biggest concern is the fact that many of these device don't have a hardware microphone kill switch. I feel better when I know I can control when a device is listening in. I've read reports that some Alexa devices have them, but I don't own any so I am unable to verify that.

I want all of my devices with microphones to hardware based kill switch for the mic; that's my phone, laptop, tablet, everything.

[pessimizer]

> I think a lot of people here are under the assumption that voice commands, on any device, have the potential to be human reviewed. I am not sure whether or not the general public has that same assumption.

That's because we, as an industry, have fooled them into thinking that AI is real, and that people who don't know it's real are idiots. We don't think students deserve a proper tech education, so unless they are professionally techies, they have to learn from marketing materials (designed to convince them to buy things.)