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Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon—starting today (techxplore.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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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.

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They doing it starting now? And not since the Alexa?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

They are removing the "process recordings locally" option, which 0.03% of users had enabled. Not much of a change.