Amazon Wants To Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom

[DamianTV]

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...n-your-bedroom

On Wednesday, Amazon announced the Echo Look, the latest gadget in the company's new Echo-powered hardware lineup. Motherboard explains:

The newly announced Echo Look is a virtual assistant with a microphone and a camera that's designed to go somewhere in your bedroom, bathroom, or wherever the hell you get dressed. Amazon is pitching it as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your friends when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question.

Um, NO. Just $#@!ING NO. Get it thru your goddamn thick $#@!ing skulls, we are NOT okay with every aspect of our lives being monitored by corporations and sold to other corporations just so they can come up with ever more manipulative and deceitful ways to take even more money from you. Not that you have any to begin with...

Total Surveillance is about CORPORATE CONTROL of YOU, not safety, not advertising, but absolute dominance over telling you who to be.

Time to throw Amazon in the $#@!ing woods? Im thinkin the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be more appropriate.

[Anti Federalist]

It'll fly off the shelves.

[Anti Federalist]

Motherboard also asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question.

That means yes.