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What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything Alexa had heard

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69 points robaato | 1 comments | 24 May 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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threeducks ◴[24 May 25 19:53 UTC] No.44083409[source]▶
> But we have two Echo devices in our household and the data shows whether a request came from the Echo Plus in the kitchen or the original Echo on our daughter Coco’s bedside table, where it has sat since around her ninth birthday. [...] So I now know that it was Coco who wanted to know what it is to be omnisexual and what omniscient means.

Doesn't it feel wrong to the author to snoop through that private information? And publishing it in a news article definitely crosses a line.

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tocs3 ◴[24 May 25 20:38 UTC] No.44083667[source]▶
Doesn't it feel wrong to the author to snoop through that private information?

It feels a little strange at first but I suspect (correctly or not) that he has sought and received permission from the daughter first. Although I did not see any direct statement. The daughter is 18 or so now (maybe, adding up the times).

The article is as much about the humdrumness of family life as about what Alexa and Amazon hears. I am glad I read it. Puts life (and some parts of technology in perspective).

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1. Ylpertnodi ◴[24 May 25 20:53 UTC] No.44083761[source]▶
>It feels a little strange at first but I suspect (correctly or not) that he has sought and received permission from the daughter first.

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