[angelzen]

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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43725708

[pvaldes]

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?

[angelzen]

I don't know the tech answer.

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?

[elric]

Any kind of jamming equipment is illegal in many places.

So could you? Maybe. Should you? Well, I suspect you're more likely to get punished for jamming frequencies than for spying on people...