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

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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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[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I was kind of thinking along those same lines, but what if millions of people did it.... Would it matter? Could a protest like that work or make Amazon see the error of their ways? I doubt it, but it would be fun nonetheless.