I don’t think Google home listens in.
Because I’d absolutely be disappeared by now if it did.
If Corporations were people, they’d be disappeared in the night for stuff like this.
Which is why they’re not people.
Why anyone would want some Tech company spybot sifting through their private experiences is beyond me, but that’s definitely what they are doing.
Which is why they’re not people.
But the C-suite and board are almost like humans. And that’s even better for… things.
everything you say to your echo/alexa has always been sent to amazon.
theres literally been leaks proving it.
I thought so… I was like wait what dont they already have to process all that data?! And no doubt its in a db somewhere… thats just how things are done. Even if they werent a malicious company, they would still need to save the data to improve the product and for analytics…
It’s not mine but I frequently tell the one in house our to “fuck off”?
No way! The microphones you put all over your house are listening to you? What a shocker!
If you bought these this is on you. Trash them now.badblock has an amazon list :)
Amazon employee with no piss breaks listening in on my echo:
“How many fucking cats does this guy have? Just chose one name and call it that!”
Edit: “I don’t know Jeff, sell him a fucking dr seuss book or something the guys mental.”
Only a fool would put an Amazon listening device in their home.
These devices are a great help to the elderly and disabled, and Amazon’s offerings are the least expensive. My buddies Mom can call emergency services from anywhere in her home with just her voice. I don’t think that’s foolish at all.
Definitely not a complete FOSS setup but I decided to go the Apple route a self-hosted Homebridge for non Apple home-kit enabled devices.
Today: “…they will be deleted after Alexa processes your requests.”
Some point in the not-so-distant future: “We are reaching out to let you know that your voice recordings will no longer be deleted. As we continue to expand Alexa’s capabilities, we have decided to no longer support this feature.”
Or simply “…they will be deleted after Alexa processes your request and generates a token for AI training”.
“We lied and paid a $3M fine.”
They could also transcribe the recording and only save that. I mean they absolutely will and surely already did do that.
And finally “We are reaching out to let you know Alexa key phrase based activation will no longer be supported. For better personalization, Alexa will always process audio in background. Don’t worry, your audio is safe with us, we highly care about your privacy.”
Wow there are way fewer “so what it’s the same as your smartphone” and “everyone does it, google, apple, it’s no big deal” comments on Lemmy.
I can’t believe people are still voluntarily wire tapping themselves in 2025
Do the device you wrote this on have a microphone?
None of my devices have one that’s lacking a physical switch to disable it.
Yes, but they’ll conveniently ignore that on devices they are addicted to.
Easy fix: don’t buy this garbage to begin with. It’s terrible for the environment, terrible for your privacy, of dubious value to begin with.
If every man is an onion, one of my deeper layers is crumudgeon. So take that into account when I say fuck all portable speakers. I’m so tired of hearing everyone’s shitty noise. Just fucking everywhere. It takes one person feeling entitled to blast the shittiest music available to ruin everyone in a 500yd radius’s day. If this is you, I hope you stub your toe on every coffee table, hit your head on every door jam, miss every bus.
I have a Google home. The only reason I have it is because Spotify gave them away for free back in 2019. It sits unplugged somewhere.
spoiler
It still captures your voice
jk (I hope)
That’s covered by my phone.
What is Alexa. Lol
