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

[Charles Shapiro]

For your cell phone, there's also a fairly cute hardware solution for the
truly paranoid..

https://store.boingboing.net/sales/nope-sound-microphone-blocker

-- CHS


On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:41 PM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 05/24/2018 02:53 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> > Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are always
> listening.
>
> I don't know anything about Apple, but you can turn off voice
> controls/listening on Android and on Amazon Tablets at the system level.
>  Never saw anything that showed these settings weren't honored.
>
> When Amazon pushed an update that enabled Alexa on their Fire tablets,
> it was pretty clear they had and easy to disable.
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