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by im-a-baby 1329 days ago
I'm confused. As the article states, the speakers do wake spuriously and record conversations. So the speakers do eavesdrop, even if it's unintentional. The article goes on to say that, even those the speakers do eavesdrop, they don't use the conversation for ad targeting. I find that hard to believe. The speaker doesn't know it's listening erroneously. If I say "Alexa, order sponges," it's totally within the realm of possibility that Amazon shows me advertisements for Dawn dish soap, and I posit this is true for any prompt I give the speaker. This article doesn't add up.