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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)

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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

And you aren't wrong, from page 2 of the article:

Amazon, for example, has previously confirmed that it uses stuff people say (and do) with Alexa for targeted ads (Amazon has long claimed that it doesn't sell customer data). But our devices are only expected to gather data on what we say when we ask them to listen to us.

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