Engineering360: "Amazon employs "thousands" to listen in on customer exchanges with Alexa"

No surprise here. When Alexa hears a 16-oz. drinking glass smash on the floor, a replacement will be automatically ordered, charged to the card and shipped the same day.

The shock is that so many people see nothing wrong with this. Probably the same ones that post their vacation plans and pictures of the kids on social media...

Yep. People more and more favor convenience over privacy.

It's interesting that people trust Amazon more so than the government. They have no problem letting Amazon listen to everything going on in their homes 24/7, but go bonkers when some TLA agency keeps track of who placed an international call, what international number was called, and the duration of that call.

Amazon wants to get as much of your money as possible. The gubmint is out looking for bad actors. I know which of these two issues is of greater concern to me.

(True, people in government can violate the public trust and use information in ways contrary to the intent/direction, and we should always be vigilant for that kind of abuse.)

GOOGLE, a private-sector NSA eavesdropper!

So does Russia, I'm sure.

Without an expectation of privacy, there is no right to privacy.

When this 24/7 exhibitionism becomes typical, will privacy will become illegal?

So if I just spoke Klingon in my house, would Amazon send me a readymade meal of Gagh for the next time I jump in my bird of prey looking for the ever elusive james t kirk ?

Surely this is the most boring job in the universe. My sympathies to those employed.