For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t really understand the authors point, if there even is one. They regale us with tales of how they wiretapped their family, but there is no lesson learned here. Don’t waste your time reading it like I did.

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      Came to say the same thing. It’s like a stream-of-consciousness advertisement. Feels pointless yet intentional all at once. Is it a paid author?

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        Jeremy Ettinghausen has worked in publishing and advertising. He now writes about people and technologies

        Probably a bit of both based on the short bio.

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        19 hours ago

        Well it feels like soul stripping, but one could also use “expose”. Why tf would anyone want to give a company, this company, all this private information?