fresh off the press - this is why I don't like to give the "benefit of the doubt" to Big Tech, even though I will limit my comments to the available info:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio
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Sean O'Brien (diggity)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:00:04 EDT Sean O'Brien - Mike Gerwitz repeated this.
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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:33:49 EDT Mike Gerwitz @diggity While this practice is expected (as the article notes, other companies do it as well), most users are definitely not aware of it and I think that many more people would be uncomfortable using these devices if they did learn that this isn't all just being processed by computers. Some of that conversation happened during the Snowden revelations---is it okay if it's… -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 13:03:40 EDT Mike Gerwitz @diggity There's a lot of good stuff your replies---thank you for all of the work that you and the others at @privacylab do! I will certainly stay tuned.