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#privacy #privacyMatters
"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/
Yesterday I paid for a year subscription of Kagi (@kagihq). I had been testing it for a few days and it reminds me of the olden days of Google.
Clean UI that gives me results at the top of the page.
Google has gone overboard with the ads and sponsored results cluttering the interface. Not to mention the AI overview at the top of each search.
“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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Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading
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
New 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/
Very glad I never once considered getting an Echo from Amazon.
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."
End of Life: #Gemini will completely replace #GoogleAssistant later this year
Allstate sued for exposing personal info in plaintext
—The Register
｢ The data was lifted from Allstate's National General business unit, which ran a website for consumers who wanted to get a quote for a policy. That task required users to input a name and address, and once that info was entered, the site searched a LexisNexis Risk Solutions database for data on anyone who lived at the address provided ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/allstate_sued_pii_exposure/
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.
