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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: 0.199s | 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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1. add-sub-mul-div ◴[24 May 25 21:33 UTC] No.44083937[source]▶
What you're missing is that people with a sexuality (or some other identity) different from yours exist in the world and don't need to hide themselves.

Your discomfort or offense makes you think that someone encountering a word means that it was "marketed" to them as opposed to that concept simply existing in society, where others will encounter it. Because identities other than yours can exist equally openly to yours. Without their acceptance needing to be justified to you.

The piece of the puzzle you're missing is that a child understanding what homosexuality is (for example) is equally mundane as their learning what heterosexuality is. The world is not going back to these other identities hiding themselves, so you can either accept it or spend the rest of your life uncomfortable about it. You have free will.