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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 01:57:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 02:09:49 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     Is this globally?

     How e. g. in the EU.
     US laws don't apply there.

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     #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

     👉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.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 02:12:24 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     in reply to

     @pluralistic

     #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

     👉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.

     https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen

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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

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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...

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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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