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Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: from Mar 28, each Ama…
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It's easy to flap your hands at this thievery and say, "surveillance c…
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Start with Amazon's excuse for destroying your privacy: they want to do AI …
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For Big Tech companies, AI is part of a "growth story" - a narrative …
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Amazon has a sky-high price/earnings ratio - about triple the ratio of rivals l…
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Being able to buy things with stock instead of money is a powerful advantage, b…
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For Amazon to double its US Prime subscriber base, it will have to establish a …
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Almost by definition, a dominant firm ceases to be a growing firm, and lives wi…
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For Big Tech companies, a growth story isn't an ideological commitment to c…
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By lumping an incoherent set of poorly understood technologies together into a …
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Every first year law student learns this 18th century definition of property, f…
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Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's Digital Mill…
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Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it…
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Giving a manufacturer the power to downgrade a device *after* you've bought…
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By "twiddling" the knobs and dials that control the prices, costs, se…
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But how can this be legal? You bought an Echo and explicitly went into its sett…
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Congress hasn't passed a consumer privacy law since 1988, when the Video Pr…
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Scumbag data-brokers you've never heard of openly boast about having dossie…
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To a first approximation, every kind of privacy violation is legal, because the…
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Regulatory capture is a function of monopoly. Highly concentrated sectors don&#…
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Starting with the Carter administration, and accelerating through every subsequ…
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Every part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of that policy choice: &…
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Now, Amazon says that the recordings your Echo will send to its data-centers wi…
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And sometimes, Amazon just sent these recordings to random people on the intern…
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me …
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@pluralistic reminds me of the East German telephone which was wired up to back…
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@vfrmedia @pluralistic speak clearly for the telescreen, citizen!
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@pluralistic One should always follow XKCDs advice about listening devices, jus…
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@pluralistic When I was left with 2 Echo(s) due to family deaths, I gave them a…
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@pluralistic What constitutes a digital lock? It seems to me that the only diff…
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@pluralistic This probably means a blind friend of mine who keeps Echo on 24/7…
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@KayeMac04 @pluralistic It does not mean that. Having an Echo device powered on…
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@pluralistic the highest p/e industry is health, which is especially disturbing…
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@kortschak it has to be "an effective means of access control."
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@pluralistic Altering the deal is pretty par for the course with Amazon product…
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@pluralistic This is an interesting read for anyone who has even an inkling of …
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@pluralistic people should be allowed returns and refunds when they do stuff li…
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@JoBlakely @pluralistic They should sue if there's no money-back option for…
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@MHowell The image is a black and white cartoon depicting a humorous scenario i…
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@pluralistic good lord ! that i'm transitioning from aws to alternate servi…
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@pluralistic just in case you needed one more reason to cancel your Amazon acco…
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@pluralistic Local processing of voice recordings was only available on three E…
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@pluralistic Oh look at that! They're turning them into surveillance and st…
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@Ponygirl @pluralistic If they are disabled by a visitor who has a wifi blocker…
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@pluralistic Bezos is SO in the tank for Trump at this point. Bribes-via-Appre…
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@pluralistic This isn't the first IoT manufacturer to abandon the "loc…
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@arstechnica @pluralistic "Attempting to rationalize the change, Amazon’…
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@pluralistic "Save recordings or lose functionality" – This reminds…
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@pluralistic As nations cancel their contracts to buy F-35 and other military e…
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@pluralistic Bezos is so disgusting. You know he designed that amazon smile log…
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@pluralistic Unless I missed it, this is in the USA but not Canada?
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@pluralistic it’s bait and switch, it’s fraud, it’s breaking and entering.
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@pluralistic "But how can this be legal? You bought an Echo..."Well y…
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@Jeffrey @pluralistic I don't know, but there's no way one of those dev…
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@pluralistic That then comes down to implementation details and would be denied…
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@MichaelimOdenwald @pluralistic Oy. Altes Foto :) Der lange Abschied hat ja beg…
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@pluralistic the best time to not have an Amazon device in your home :- the fir…
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@slashdottir @pluralistic Never thought I would leave Amazon, BUT Bezos managed…
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@Savvyhomestead @pluralistic I actually heard that Amazon loses money selling p…
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@JoBlakely @pluralistic if we still had a functioning legal system, it would be…
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@KayeMac04 @pluralistic to clarify, it does not mean it's listening 24/7, i…
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@soviut @KayeMac04 @pluralistic have you never seen an ad for something you hav…
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@KayeMac04 @pluralistic Separately, does your friend have one of the three Echo…
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@jscholes @pluralistic We live in the UK where Amazon has decided opt-in ADP c…
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@KayeMac04 The entire thread is anger at Amazon, so I think it was a fair assum…
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