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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for (fedia.io)
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Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.

I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:

  1. Unplug Echo Device
  2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
  3. Done

#amazon #echo #privacy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Followed your easy steps on 4 Amazon devices. All trash.