Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices.
Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices.
What makes you think this wasn’t the case the whole time? Try speaking with it off-line. There is no off-line. Don’t be naive.
…Good thing though, is that nobody cares about your data except you. It’s being sent over purely because of the compute resources required.