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[ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio

Subject: [ale] Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user's private audio
From: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:41:11 -0400
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On 05/24/2018 02:53 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> Siri on your Apple Phone and Google voice on your Android are always listening.

I don't know anything about Apple, but you can turn off voice
controls/listening on Android and on Amazon Tablets at the system level.
 Never saw anything that showed these settings weren't honored.

When Amazon pushed an update that enabled Alexa on their Fire tablets,
it was pretty clear they had and easy to disable.

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