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Post #As5G7AnKzRaDfJcQQi by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As5G7BkBSeeebp9Q9Y by [email protected] |
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Start with Amazon's excuse for destroying your privacy: they want to do AI … |
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Post #As5G7CEfdJ2c8NPlfk by [email protected] |
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For Big Tech companies, AI is part of a "growth story" - a narrative … |
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Post #As5G7CjVmdi9g1qOkC by [email protected] |
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Amazon has a sky-high price/earnings ratio - about triple the ratio of rivals l… |
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Post #As5G7DELvyNhDgH1oe by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As5G7Ec8n10HVkPXX6 by [email protected] |
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For Big Tech companies, a growth story isn't an ideological commitment to c… |
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Post #As5G7F6cxfOF2Ift3I by [email protected] |
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By lumping an incoherent set of poorly understood technologies together into a … |
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Post #As5G7FcB4Mcwc9R5EG by [email protected] |
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Every first year law student learns this 18th century definition of property, f… |
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Post #As5G7G3TQsSfyoCsm8 by [email protected] |
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Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's Digital Mill… |
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Post #As5G7GXxbWqdVMTEIK by [email protected] |
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Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it… |
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Post #As5G7GzFy2gMs1F1qC by [email protected] |
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Giving a manufacturer the power to downgrade a device *after* you've bought… |
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Post #As5G7HT2BKVAMNAoFs by [email protected] |
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By "twiddling" the knobs and dials that control the prices, costs, se… |
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Post #As5G7HyEJLSHv7lisa by [email protected] |
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But how can this be legal? You bought an Echo and explicitly went into its sett… |
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Post #As5G7IPseXZbIshnyi by [email protected] |
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Congress hasn't passed a consumer privacy law since 1988, when the Video Pr… |
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Post #As5G7IsavmXejw8jjc by [email protected] |
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Scumbag data-brokers you've never heard of openly boast about having dossie… |
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Post #As5G7JM1AO4sDBuEb2 by [email protected] |
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To a first approximation, every kind of privacy violation is legal, because the… |
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Post #As5G7JqrJikPkqKrfU by [email protected] |
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Regulatory capture is a function of monopoly. Highly concentrated sectors don&#… |
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Post #As5G7KOtHByBSOG2iG by [email protected] |
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Starting with the Carter administration, and accelerating through every subsequ… |
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Post #As5G7Kppf1WKnwrYhs by [email protected] |
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Every part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of that policy choice: &… |
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Post #As5G7LHU0DdeBhndo0 by [email protected] |
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Now, Amazon says that the recordings your Echo will send to its data-centers wi… |
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Post #As5G7LprwN8zuLt6P2 by [email protected] |
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And sometimes, Amazon just sent these recordings to random people on the intern… |
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Post #As5G7MMpxnW1YbJQn2 by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As5G7Mt61rJtAePC4W by [email protected] |
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Post #As5Ksm1slnngZcNK1g by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic reminds me of the East German telephone which was wired up to back… |
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Post #As5Ksm9KK7kswhrGd6 by [email protected] |
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@vfrmedia @pluralistic speak clearly for the telescreen, citizen! |
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Post #As5MX3TnPSq8ERCeO0 by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic One should always follow XKCDs advice about listening devices, jus… |
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Post #As5NGgvbaV1jbuyIzo by [email protected] |
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@MHowell This bot has been asked to generate an alt text for your image by @str… |
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Post #As5UBNh4NBB0BfaUvg by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As5cdKWIZ7Zy5NO5gm by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic What constitutes a digital lock? It seems to me that the only diff… |
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Post #As5g2uFXA0eg08QvnE by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic This probably means a blind friend of mine who keeps Echo on 24/7… |
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Post #As5g2uMyiKbsNDusOe by [email protected] |
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@KayeMac04 @pluralistic It does not mean that. Having an Echo device powered on… |
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Post #As5gvDVvkfNpO104J6 by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic the highest p/e industry is health, which is especially disturbing… |
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Post #As5gvLKWgx0xcxj4ds by [email protected] |
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@kortschak it has to be "an effective means of access control." |
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Post #As5h1PU69u5GFX61lQ by [email protected] |
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Post #As5h2F8y5i4yT3bt32 by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic This is an interesting read for anyone who has even an inkling of … |
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Post #As5h2PpsL2LJd1lIJc by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic people should be allowed returns and refunds when they do stuff li… |
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Post #As5h2PwFxJRlwokOGG by [email protected] |
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@JoBlakely @pluralistic They should sue if there's no money-back option for… |
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Post #As5h6CEQrL1aax3D4y by [email protected] |
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Post #As5h85Rx2sMG8lH9tY by [email protected] |
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@altbot @strongsand Y |
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@MHowell The image is a black and white cartoon depicting a humorous scenario i… |
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Post #As5hC1YRTCWxDYBmt6 by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic good lord ! that i'm transitioning from aws to alternate servi… |
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Post #As5hCvcd0p9Z6kZvBg by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic just in case you needed one more reason to cancel your Amazon acco… |
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Post #As5hE09XeUhHRwU8eW by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic Local processing of voice recordings was only available on three E… |
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Post #As5hEAj0LV0QEp9bJg by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As5hEK4baYdFEQKTjc by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic Bezos is SO in the tank for Trump at this point. Bribes-via-Appre… |
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Post #As5hFhnuqMNj7ZBMf2 by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic This isn't the first IoT manufacturer to abandon the "loc… |
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Post #As5hGGCCyY11mkoFFI by [email protected] |
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@arstechnica @pluralistic "Attempting to rationalize the change, Amazon’… |
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Post #As5hGGkEw1EnUIjQI4 by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As5hKPPudMgNXgCJmq by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic Unless I missed it, this is in the USA but not Canada? |
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Post #As5hMjknzaxPCB52LQ by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic it’s bait and switch, it’s fraud, it’s breaking and entering. |
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Post #As5hQj22cQVW7A2n0C by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic "But how can this be legal? You bought an Echo..."Well y… |
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Post #As5hRYKvrwvDEWH61o by [email protected] |
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@Jeffrey @pluralistic I don't know, but there's no way one of those dev… |
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Post #As5hTJnOu1SYiNQs2C by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic That then comes down to implementation details and would be denied… |
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Post #As5hYEwqLzEr7zCDb6 by [email protected] |
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@MichaelimOdenwald @pluralistic Oy. Altes Foto :) Der lange Abschied hat ja beg… |
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Post #As5wgJaqSutHADDOa0 by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As61YMuAlgbetBHlAG by [email protected] |
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@Savvyhomestead @pluralistic I actually heard that Amazon loses money selling p… |
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Post #As6246Gs9EWMZC2A8O by [email protected] |
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@JoBlakely @pluralistic if we still had a functioning legal system, it would be… |
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Post #As69l5lCcdXd76fSfg by [email protected] |
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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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Post #As9KQP69DALxyfgLqK by [email protected] |
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@KayeMac04 @pluralistic Separately, does your friend have one of the three Echo… |
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Post #As9KQPEehX9uP3f96W by [email protected] |
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@jscholes @pluralistic We live in the UK where Amazon has decided opt-in ADP c… |
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Post #As9KQPKgL7ymhkTxUu by [email protected] |
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@KayeMac04 The entire thread is anger at Amazon, so I think it was a fair assum… |
