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[[https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15960596/amazon-alexa-echo-speaker-audio-recordings-developers-data][Amazon may give app developers access to Alexa audio recordings]].

You don't have to be a genius to imagine the tons of problems that
relates even to the discussion of it. Especially after we found out
that the [[https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/voice-recognition-technology-nsa/][spy agencies maintain voice-profiles of everybody to identify
and track us any time we are near a microphone]].

If you wondered in school how people were able to live with
surveillance of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi][Stasi (GDR)]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System][nowadays in China]]: millions of people
are buying finest espionage hardware and placing them in their homes.

Yes, consumers actually pay for being spied on.

No, this is not exaggerated.

(Via [[https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a49df509][fefe]])