Who forced my neighbor to buy a Ring? Should we have any confidence that my neighbor's Amazon state of the art far field microphones don't also pick up the vibrations from my house / condo?
There is nothing I can do about it short of becoming obscenely rich and buying a large enough property that Amazon's spying tech can't physically penetrate.
Just to be clear, this is the corporation we're talking about:
> Amazon says it does not eavesdrop on customers' conversations to target advertising at them, after it emerged it had patented "voice-sniffing" tech.
> The patent describes listening to conversations and building a profile of customers' likes and dislikes.
[...]
> However, the patent describes an algorithm that can listen to entire conversations, using "trigger words", such as like and love, to build a profile of customers.
This poses an interesting question: couldn't anybody disrupt this devices temporarily inside their property with a personal wifi jammer or something like that? What would be the alexa response in that case?
Socially speaking, I feel rather strongly that it should be elementary courtesy to shut off the panopticon if I visit your spyware-infested house. I didn't consent to Amazon building a profile of me, can you please stop being a creepy asshole on behalf of Amazon?
There is nothing I can do about it short of becoming obscenely rich and buying a large enough property that Amazon's spying tech can't physically penetrate.
Just to be clear, this is the corporation we're talking about:
> Amazon says it does not eavesdrop on customers' conversations to target advertising at them, after it emerged it had patented "voice-sniffing" tech.
> The patent describes listening to conversations and building a profile of customers' likes and dislikes.
[...]
> However, the patent describes an algorithm that can listen to entire conversations, using "trigger words", such as like and love, to build a profile of customers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43725708