XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.usa   
   From: 6r1mr34p3r@yourtimehascome.sbs   
      
   El 30/3/25 a las 3:35, c186282 escribió:   
   > 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 !!!   
   Yeah, well, nothing really new, as if they weren't listening before that   
   (and I mean when the option to send was turned off etc), that's what   
   happens when you have a crappy product from an EVIL company with EVIL   
   non-free software in it. It happens with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta,   
   and whatever other evil company you want, and will always happen with them.   
      
   Besides that, I have a very old Fire TV Cube unused somewhere, I may   
   research what stuff I may do to it like installing custom ROM or   
   GNU/Linux. Also curious about extreme de-bloating   
      
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