My only contact with Alexa was at Christmas, 2 yrs ago. I don’t activate “hey, Siri” on any of my devices. I’ll have to check my Kindle Fire, tho but I’m pretty sure I didn’t turn it on.
I’ll update this group if I find anything interesting. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Nov 8, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > prothero wrote: > > > ...this did get me thinking about the spyware developed to listen in > > on people’s smart phone microphone without the owner being logged in. > > > Especially by intelligence agencies, but who would be interested in a > > retire Santa Barbara faculty member. I will get on bitdefender’s list > > with this question. > > Please let us know what you find. > > There's quite a controversy going on about how much of one's personal > conversations the Facebook app listens to. > > But there's no question that all voice-activated systems (Apple's Siri, > Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Corana, Google's voice navigation) must listen at > all times in order to be able to know when you call them by name. > > It wouldn't be possible for them to do what they do without an always-on mic > connected to the Internet. > > At least Google (hopefully all of them) provides a place in account settings > to hear the last several clips it sent to their server to try to determine if > you were actually activating the voice service or just talking to someone in > the room. > > Once I listened to those clips, I was momentarily relieved to find nothing > there of any particular interest, just me talking to my wife about shopping, > with a friend in line at a movie, with my father-in-law over breakfast. > > But right afterward I turned it off. Never regretted it. I only really used > it in my car, and I'd driven for decades without it so I figure I can do a > couple more decades without it as well. > > Whether any of that always-on-mic-connected-live-to-the-Internet should be > active or not while the screen is "locked" is something I can't say with > confidence. Even if designed to be a certain way, like webcams there's no > guarantee it can't be abused. > > Zuckerberg keeps tape over his laptop camera. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
