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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They don't spy on you without your permission.

You should probably edit your comment to clarify that they don't listen to you.

"Spying" doesn't really have a clear definition in this context. Amazon employees have been caught spying on customers through their cameras, and giving away clips to authorities without "owners'" consent, consult or notification.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

True, that is more accurate. IMO, in those instances, Amazon get all the shit that they deserve...although for many instances these are in their terms of service. There has been no shortage of scandals where Amazon have used utterance data for training ML models, or where they've retained voice data for the same reasons, when these have been in the TOS from the beginning.