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

> 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.

> 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.

Well of course, only Amazon should have this info 8-/

This whole thing is truly disturbing.

And the millennial expectation that "OF COURSE the monopolistic corps should know everything", is by far the most disturbing part of all.

When in the next decade or two, people find themselves truly and irreversibly f_cked by corporate over-dominance, it will largely be their own fault...

> And the millennial expectation that "OF COURSE the monopolistic corps should know everything", is by far the most disturbing part of all.

Your experiences are very different from my own. I struggle to remember meeting anyone that thought this. Mostly people are just apathetic.

> Mostly people are just apathetic.

And apathy is what caused all of history's greatest crimes to happen. No matter which political ideology, which skin color, which age.

As for the argument of "OF COURSE the monopolistic corps should know everything" itself... I kinda get it. Google at least used to provide a decent service to the end users in exchange for all the data, but they've gone completely off the rails the last few years.