[ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

There's a reason Republicans overturned privacy regulations on ISPs.

Oddly enough I got an Amazon Echo for free a couple of months back but it is still in the box in plastic.

However, you don't need Echo for this.   Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are always listening.

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From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen via Ale
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 2:35 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio

Government = Amazon = Google = Microsoft = Apple .....
If Amazon gets the data, the government can get or intercept it.

On 5/24/18 1:33 PM, Greg Clifton via Ale wrote:
> And we (well most of us or at least many of us) thought that Big 
> Brother was going to be the Government!
> 
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Calvin Harrigan via Ale <ale at ale.org 
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Appalled and outraged! </s>
> 
> 
>     On 05/24/2018 02:29 PM, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
> 
>         Is anyone actually surprised by this??
> 
>         /Raj
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>> On
>         Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via Ale
>         Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 2:12 PM
>         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>         Subject: [ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared
>         user's
>         private audio
> 
>         https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-sec
>         <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/amazon-confirms-that-echo-device-sec>
>         retly-shared-users-private-audio/
> 
>         IoT security rocks! /s
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The University of Alabama
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allen at ua.edu
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