Would You Buy A Alexa Or Not?

tiddlywinks · Oct 30, 2017

I was reading somewhere that Amazon is rolling out their new "Amazon Key" products soon that allow carriers to drop packages off within your home. Disturbingly (but not surprisingly) enough, it requires cameras in- and outside, tethered to an app on your phone that can unlock doors when you aren't there. I'd have to track down the exact article, but I recall a quote where an executive was saying that "this is NOT an experiment, it will be a core part of our shopping experience moving forward" and that within the next few years, Amazon aspires to be integrated with over fifty percent of your daily life.

Thoughts?

yasmin · Oct 30, 2017

tiddlywinks said:
I was reading somewhere that Amazon is rolling out their new "Amazon Key" products soon that allow carriers to drop packages off within your home. Disturbingly (but not surprisingly) enough, it requires cameras in- and outside, tethered to an app on your phone that can unlock doors when you aren't there. I'd have to track down the exact article, but I recall a quote where an executive was saying that "this is NOT an experiment, it will be a core part of our shopping experience moving forward" and that within the next few years, Amazon aspires to be integrated with over fifty percent of your daily life.

Thoughts?

Spooky! I don’t understand why people would allow that much access to the extent where someone would be able to get into their homes. Yikes

UnderAlienControl · Feb 15, 2018

Maes17 · Feb 17, 2018

Vixy said:
Dont even know what the hell this is nor have I even heard the name before ut it sounds like a gimmick you wouldn't need since my tv's, computers, webcams and phone already do enough spying.

A lot of tech like that is gimmick imo.
I think the gov tries to look for patterns in our habits which is spooky really

Lurker · Feb 17, 2018

tiddlywinks said:
I was reading somewhere that Amazon is rolling out their new "Amazon Key" products soon that allow carriers to drop packages off within your home. Disturbingly (but not surprisingly) enough, it requires cameras in- and outside, tethered to an app on your phone that can unlock doors when you aren't there. I'd have to track down the exact article, but I recall a quote where an executive was saying that "this is NOT an experiment, it will be a core part of our shopping experience moving forward" and that within the next few years, Amazon aspires to be integrated with over fifty percent of your daily life.

Thoughts?

https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/nice-try-amazon.1819/

MP3D · Feb 18, 2018

i have one. i of course am weary about it. i used my dummy account to connect to it. i will never connect my bank account info. i will never connect my calendar to it, etc... but to use it for simple things like playing music or getting traffic reports or weather or lisyening to NPR, its pretty cool.

my kids learn from it. and its useful for many things.

there is a mute feature you can turn on. IF i do find out that it does record all the time, not just when the wake word is spoken i will smash it into a million peices.

if you have a smart phone, you are alredy being tracked and spied on. google is worse.

Lurker · Feb 18, 2018

MP3D said:
IF i do find out that it does record all the time

By the time you find out, it's far too late.

UnderAlienControl · Feb 18, 2018

Red Sky at Morning · Feb 18, 2018

UnderAlienControl said:
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So true!!

MP3D · Feb 18, 2018

but at the same time, you need to embrace techhnology to some degree. we are all here because we at some level know the agenda.

google maps sells your data, your iphone sells your health app data. etc...etc... unless you are 100% unplgged, it doesnt matter.

UnderAlienControl · Feb 18, 2018

Musta been about DC...

enderpotato00 · Mar 7, 2018

Nope. Alexa is pretty just Big Brother in disguise

Carolyn · Mar 8, 2018

https://www.avclub.com/amazon-confirms-that-some-alexa-units-have-begun-creepi-1823593392?rev=1520458727242&utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

Todd · Mar 8, 2018

MP3D said:
but at the same time, you need to embrace techhnology to some degree. we are all here because we at some level know the agenda.

google maps sells your data, your iphone sells your health app data. etc...etc... unless you are 100% unplgged, it doesnt matter.

I agree, if you are going to suspicious of Alexa, then you need to suspicious of any device you own that has the ability to connect to the internet. That's all Alexa is.....it is just another device to connect to the internet. I also find it funny that average everyday people with little political power or influence think the government actually has the time or desire to spy on you. Maybe if you were super rich and had some large scale influence on society, but I doubt too many of us on this forum even come close to the CIA's radar.

My wife wanted an Alexa Echo for Christmas. It's connected but the only thing it really gets used for is voice commands for the lights in the family room and kitchen. Oh and the humorous moments when our 4 year old has "Conversations" with "Alexka"

Lurker · Mar 8, 2018

Todd said:
I agree, if you are going to suspicious of Alexa, then you need to suspicious of any device you own that has the ability to connect to the internet.

While true, Alexa was specifically designed and marketed to listen to you

Todd said:
I also find it funny that average everyday people with little political power or influence think the government actually has the time or desire to spy on you

Parallel Construction. LINK

Todd · Mar 8, 2018

Lurker said:
While true, Alexa was specifically designed and marketed to listen to you

AKA it has a microphone. So does your phone and your tablet and your laptop. There is nothing unique as far as hardware goes with Alexa. Any spying or data collection that can be done with Alexa can be done just as easily with your phone, laptop and tablet.

Helioform · Mar 8, 2018

People worry about Alexa but don't even realize that their smartphone is also a spying device thanks to a NSA backdoor in the operating system. And there are billions of those in circulation.

http://bgr.com/2016/12/19/android-backdoor-malware-spy-app/

Violette · Mar 8, 2018

Carolyn said:
https://www.avclub.com/amazon-confirms-that-some-alexa-units-have-begun-creepi-1823593392?rev=1520458727242&utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

My computer spoke to me once it was terrifying

TruthSucker · Mar 8, 2018

Todd said:
I also find it funny that average everyday people with little political power or influence think the government actually has the time or desire to spy on you. Maybe if you were super rich and had some large scale influence on society, but I doubt too many of us on this forum even come close to the CIA's radar.

I think you're wrong. Of course the CIA or whatever has no interest in me, you or anyone on this forum. But that's not the point and not the truth. Alexa is not made by the CIA, it's from Amazon. Your smartphone is from Apple, Google or Samsung (meanwhile from Huawei). Your TV is from Samsung, you go shopping on Amazon. You publicate your interests on facebook while you speak to you friends on WhatsApp (facebook). Google nearly knows anything about you. Amazon knows what you need.

So we do have to 2 really, REALLY big companys knowing pretty exactly who you are and what you want. Algorithm is the key. Combine all data and you know how you probably will vote (and why) and what you probably will buy. So if this is nothing interesting, then I am not of influence.
The biggest mistake people make is thinking they have no power. We do have power, but we don't use it.

Vixy · Mar 8, 2018

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