• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you had any remote idea about the tech industry, you’d know what kind of reputation Amazon has. If Amazon were stealing data, you can bet your ass that one of its employees (probably one of the ~6% that gets fired every year) would happily rat them out.

    Comments like these amaze me. Even cesspools like Reddit and Twitter wouldn’t be so out of touch and stupid.

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        1 year ago

        They’re not completely wrong, though. If the devices are phoning home when the mic is disabled, then someone would have discovered it by now. There are people who do that shit for fun, and Amazon is a big target.

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          1 year ago

          As someone who has Google Home and used to have Alexa:

          I have network tools tracking what these devices are doing just to see if they are constantly listening or doing anything weird.

          In 4 years I’ve yet to see anything suspicious, which sucks, cuz it’d be worth so much fucking money to the media