Landlord Alexa "makes it easy for property managers to set up and manage Alexa-powered smart home experiences throughout their buildings." The parodies literally write themselves now 😬 gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/amazo…

Amazon's Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen

You know that clip of Steve Carell from The Office where he’s shouting “No, God! No, God, please no! No! No! Nooooooooo!” That’s how I feel about Amazon’s announcement that it’s adding a new service...

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Very glad to rent a house, which now comes with a free, unremovable cop recording everything I do

Sep 11, 2020 · 10:06 PM UTC

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Free spot to mount your fleshlight. Have fun listening to that.
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They can make it not movable, and wire it into the house, so it isn't plugged into an outlet. It'll never be secure enough to stop people from hacking it.
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Sell drugs and get the building possessed by civil forfeiture.
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Put it in a sound proof box with a recording asking it some stupid question for all of time
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this kind of automation will totally destroy my small business (sneaking into the crawl space of rented houses to stare at residents and tweet out their best quotes)
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*Considers investing in a tea cosy manufacturer*
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But what if we -- now hear me out -- didn't *have* a right to privacy, nor did we desire one? I am very smart.
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Sorry it fell into the blender idk what happened
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