You can completely disable Siri or whatever your device's equivalent is. The entire purpose of Alexa is to be listening all the time. They're not equivalent.
Can you prove that you've disabled it? That it's not listening all the time and logging interesting sounds?
I don't see a huge difference between a speaker that's designed to have an always-on mic listening for a code-word and we're just going to trust that it doesn't log anything unless it hears that codeword, and a phone that's designed to have the same, but has a software option to turn it off.
Either way, we're trusting that the device isn't abusing the fact that it has a mic.
Of course, but the convenience of a smartphone does outweigh the potential surveillance. I getwork done on my phone, book cabs and flight tickets, get food delivered. I've tried living without my smartphone but it's not feasible.
0xffff2|6 years ago
Pxtl|6 years ago
I don't see a huge difference between a speaker that's designed to have an always-on mic listening for a code-word and we're just going to trust that it doesn't log anything unless it hears that codeword, and a phone that's designed to have the same, but has a software option to turn it off.
Either way, we're trusting that the device isn't abusing the fact that it has a mic.
puranjay|6 years ago
A smart speaker I can live without all my life
izzydata|6 years ago