From: J@M
On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:35:53 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-alexa-speaker-amazon-today.html
>Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to
>Amazon—starting today
>Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa
>smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-
>powered "agentic capabilities" and turn a profit from the
>popular devices.
>Starting today (March 28), Alexa devices will send all
>audio recordings to the cloud for processing, and choosing
>not to save these recordings will disable personalization
>features.
>Alexa devices send recordings to the cloud by default.
>However, some high-end Echo models previously supported
>a setting called "Do not send voice recordings."
>If this setting was enabled, all recordings were processed
>locally. In practice, only a tiny fraction of Echo users
>(around 0.03% had this turned on.
>In the first change, this setting is disabled, and all
>recordings will be sent to the cloud.
>. . .
> Recorded, kept, analyzed and sure as hell SOLD to
> the highest bidders, including the cops/spooks.
> Anything you say WILL be used against you ...
> Got Alexa ? INTO THE TRASH !!!
(using Tor Browser 14.0.8)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alexa+speaker+amazon+sold+2025
>
>https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-alexa-speaker-amazon-today.html
>March 29, 2025
>The GIST
>Editors' notes
>Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today
>by Kathy Reid, The Conversation
>Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
>Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a
>push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered "agentic capabilities" and
>turn a profit from the popular devices.
>Starting today (March 28), Alexa devices will send all audio recordings to the
>cloud for processing, and choosing not to save these recordings will disable
>personalization features....
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it's sci-fi becoming reality, "big brother is watching you meets godzilla"
and it seems that every party to corporate-government is on the bandwagon
in the newsgroup "alt.privacy.anon-server", big brother/troll farm agents
have actually stated explicitly and repeatedly that remailer users should
literally "uncheck" and "deactivate" their "remailer message routing" for
posting articles to usenet newsgroups . . . i'll quote a frank zappa tune:
"I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livingroom floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go"
'I'm the Slime' -- Frank Zappa & Mothers
(c) 1973 Warner Bros. Records
(no insult to actual oozing slime intended)
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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