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Amazon Alexa secretly recorded private conversations and sent the recordings to random contacts - all without notifying users. 😱

fox13memphis.com/news/trending-… ht @sapna
Amazon rep: “This was an extremely rare occurrence.“

So we’ll just take your word for it then?

This is why we need transparency and accountability on privacy. Esp for tech cos like Amazon that are omnipresent in consumer lives AND also supply tech/services to gov/military/LE.
Many large tech companies (inc. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) sell tech/services to gov, military, law enforcement, and political campaigns. There are NO guarantees that the data collected from consumer devices will not be used for those buyers.

wired.com/story/the-line…
Reminder that there is no privacy policy for the Amazon Echo or any Amazon Alexa devices. The TOS only refers to the Amazon.com privacy policy, which does not include details on recording, voice data security, etc. amazon.com/gp/help/custom…
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I came across a mention of this think tank report in an old Joan Didion essay, and of course I had to find it immediately. The title alone is amazing, and there are some real gems in there.

“Cybernation: The Shadow Conquest” (1962) stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rr2…
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“Cybernated systems perform with a precision and a rapidity unmatched in humans.” (By the way, should we bring back the term “cybernated” - Y/N?)
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Everything Sundar Pinchai says here is disappointing. It’s sad to see a formerly mission-driven company lose its moral compass. Goodbye freedom of information, hello censored search engines. wired.com/story/wired-25… via @WIRED
Pinchai uses a very weak excuse to defend Project Drafonfly: “We are compelled by our mission [to] provide information to everyone, and [China is] 20 percent of the world's population.”

Here’s why we shouldn’t accept this from Google: ‪“We are compelled by our mission [to] provide information to everyone, and [China is] 20 percent of the world's population.”‬
First, many orgs have to balance cultural values w/int’l markets. This isn’t a new problem & certainly not a new problem for Google. “Balancing cultural values” doesn’t obligate compliance w/every restrictive regime. Google knows this, and it’s disingenuous to claim otherwise.
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Gov made legal requests, got warrants. Facebook defended its users against overbroad demands. Civil society spoke out for free speech and assembly. This is the rule of law in action. cnn.com/2017/09/28/pol…
Gov has always had an interest in monitoring social agitators. In America, we balance that interest against the *far more important* interests of free speech, free assembly, and fair political process.
Anything that threatens the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system is a threat to democracy. The rule of law is one of the last tools we have for saving democratic values in the face of un-democratic leaders, in any branch of gov.
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