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"US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/
"Colloquially, the IPA is referred to as the Snooper's Charter since its aims are to legally empower intelligence agencies with greater surveillance powers."
With just a few week's notice, Amazon is telling folks with Echo devices that the setting that lets smart speakers & displays process Alexa requests locally is disappearing. Starting March 28 all requests will be recorded and sent to Amazon's cloud servers, whether you're using Alexa+ or just plain old Alexa. #Amazon #AmazonEcho #Alexa #privacy http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
@Chirael@infosec.exchange“Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading”
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/ #amazon #privacy #alexa from @pluralistic
30% of AI Chatbots share collected information with third parties:
#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa
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... felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense."
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Source:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen
#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa
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... for a copyrighted work:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification
That means that once Amazon reaches over the air to stir up the guts of your Echo, no one is allowed to give you a tool that will let you get inside your Echo and change the software back. Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it requires breaking the digital lock that controls access to the firmware, and that's a...
#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa
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Is this globally?
How e. g. in the EU.
US laws don't apply there.
"If the #Echo is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it? Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct makes it a felony to "bypass an access control"...
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeNew Privacy Guides video 
by @jw
If you've wondered about
the difference between:
Privacy,
Security,
and Anonymity 
And why some privacy-focused
services are worth using even when they don't provide perfect anonymity, watch this!
It's truly an amazing short video!
Everyone should watch it 
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/03/14/stop-confusing-privacy-anonymity-and-security/
If you still use one of these devices, you might want to start looking into alternatives.
"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally [...] Starting on March 28, recordings of everything command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."
Aber Dinge wie #chatkontrolle und Backdoors für die Polizei sind natürlich total ungefährlich und missbrauchsfrei 
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/sexuelle-belaestigung-frauen-polizei-100.html
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'
Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?
The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.
Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.
Sign and share now 
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
‘Absurd’
When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out 
Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.
It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.
