I know it sounds intrusive, but who exactly is listening.
DP,
I bet Trump thought the same thing when he said on that RV after the interview "grab girls by their *****". Yup, he said the same thing, who exactly is listening?
Do you think private conversations that you have had in your home can be twisted to prove a crime? Ask General Flynn when he was ambushed and interviewed unknowingly in his own office.
My answer: the swamp is listening. And it is being recorded and stored for the next 100 years in case they ever need leverage on you. Google. NSA. FBI. Chinese, Russians, take your pick.
Let me explain. Information is power. Leverage is taking a little bit of power and controlling a whole lot more power. So take a company like Google. They can store massive data for little cost. They write their licenses so they can store this data and you have no recourse. They record a 20 year old college kid get drunk and sleep with a prostitute, or him smacking his girlfriend. Do this for 10 million young men. In 30 years, some of them are going to be powerful politicians. Dig back, find those recordings. How much power will Google have over that politician if he knows they have that audio?
Think that's crazy? How many years between when NBC recorded that hot-mike with Trump and when it came out? A decade+? Who saves that for a decade? They kept that tape as leverage, and when it benefited them by helping Hillary only THEN was it released.
I see what you are saying. I thought about it the other day. Here is what I came up with that Alexa would have picked up on in my house.
Me- Loading the dishwasher and telling my dog how to load the dishwasher the correct way ( she isn't going to dishes, and I am not crazy...I promise. She is a Shih-poo and demands that I talk to her).
My husband-asking me what I had going on today.
Me- Telling him nothing other than school work and hanging out.
Me - Running the vacuum cleaner.
My husband - Making meatballs in the kitchen.
Me - in the kitchen making kale in the steamer.
That's about it. Are you asleep yet? Pretty boring.
I am not going to be a powerful politician..heck, I don't even want to be on the city counsel. I think it would be an insane amount of data to file and keep stored if they kept every conversation recorded on everyone that had an echo dot. I could see where the CIA might tap into it, if you were someone worth tapping into. I am just not that kind of person.
There is more tracking me on the computer through Google searches and on my Iphone. I never use Siri, but it is the same kind of thing as an Alexa. There is little escape from using a smart phone or computer nowadays. They can track you from cell tower pings, searches, GPS, satellite imagery, TX DOT cameras, health insurance claims etc. Even if you do incognito searches on the internet, they can still track you in other ways.
I am baking a cake tonight..using Alexa for a kitchen timer, and I did ask Alexa these questions:
Me- Alexa, are you dangerous?
Alexa- No, I am not dangerous.
Me- Alexa, are you spying on me?
Alexa- No, I only send audio information back to Amazon when I hear the wake word. For more on Amazon's privacy policy visit (blah blah blah)
I will say it was kind of creepy that she actually knew what I was talking about.
When I got the new one, the first thing I did was take out the hard drive and install an SSD that I had put Windows 7 on. I'm convinced there is a squirrely trojan or something somewhere in windows 10 that's activated when you start switching all the snooping features off that makes the programme misbehave.
