• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I mean if they were doing this already there would be no point in sending this email out. They would have just happily continued letting people think it wasn’t happening while doing it anyway, while not having to deal with the backlash this will generate.

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        7 hours ago

        My suspicion is they probably need to announce it now for some legal reason but there’s no Amazon device with the power to do this locally so it’s definitely always been sent to them.

        Now would they delete that right away or analyse it first, I kinda think they would have always done the latter.

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          6 hours ago

          I mean there’s no legal reason that would exist now that didn’t before.

          My guess is that they did honor the setting, but that was because the amount of people that used it was so low vs the total number of people that used the devices. Now with smart speaker adoption rates declining, and their desire to train AI, they have to dip into the pool of people that opted not to share.

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      6 hours ago

      The setting mentioned in the email was on by default. So they definitely were, they’re just removing the ability to turn it off.