Amazon Installing Alexa in Apartments and Hotel Rooms

[Swordsmyth]

More creepy “Surveillance Capitalism” courtesy of Amazon who isn’t hiding that it is putting millions of smart speakers in homes and hotels by “offering discounted hardware, customized software and new ways for property managers to harvest and use data.”
Are there actually people willing to pay for this type of arrangement?
From the Wall Street Journal, “Amazon’s Plan to Move In to Your Next Apartment Before You Do.”

For Amazon, the appeal is obvious: Adding millions of new users to its services and gaining access to data like their voice-based wish lists and Alexa-powered shopping habits will put it further ahead of the competition which, at the moment, doesn’t have a significant presence in rental properties and new-home construction.
‘We can predict if residents are happy based on their digital interactions.’

Here’s what they have to say about privacy:

And there’s a question of privacy: Renters, home buyers and hotel guests are all surrendering more data as a result of these innovations, and may not be aware of all the parties monitoring their smart-home interactions.

Consenting to this data-surrending may be hidden somewhere in the contract’s fine print that most don’t read or don’t understand.
According to the article, Google is also interested in doing this kind of thing in homes too. Why the heck not, right?


More at: https://www.activistpost.com/2019/06...e-tenants.html

[TheTexan]

Alexa in hotel rooms? Think of the possibilities...

So cool!

[Swordsmyth]

Not Just Alexa: Google Employees Eavesdropping On People Via 'Smart Speakers'

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Alexa take off your clothes

[DamianTV]

They are not doing this as an Amenity, they are doing it to monitor and categorize private behaviors that occur in their rooms in order to extract more money from people.

In a world without privacy, a person will fear their own thoughts because those are exactly what will end up getting them killed when their chips are turned off and they are not allowed to get a job because they are the wrong religion.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

They are not doing this as an Amenity, they are doing it to monitor and categorize private behaviors that occur in their rooms in order to extract more money from people.

In a world without privacy, a person will fear their own thoughts because those are exactly what will end up getting them killed when their chips are turned off and they are not allowed to get a job because they are the wrong religion.

wrong race: european
wrong religion: christian
wrong sex: male
wrong sexual orientation: not gay

[Swordsmyth]

wrong race: european
wrong religion: christian
wrong sex: male
wrong sexual orientation: not gay

wrong politics: libertarian/conservative

Your access to bitcoin is hereby terminated.

[DamianTV]

wrong politics: libertarian/conservative

Your access to bitcoin is hereby terminated.

When it gets to "your access to food is hereby terminated" then we have a real problem. And THAT is exactly what is coming. Cant rent, cant get on public transportation, cant get a job, cant take out a loan, cant associate with people that might be able to help you, cant eat. Literally trying to kill people by denying them the bare necessities. Thats how you get away with the Next Genocide and get away with it.

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wrong race: european
wrong religion: christian
wrong sex: male
wrong sexual orientation: not gay

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Warrior_of_Freedom again.

Someone cover me?

[Swordsmyth]

When it gets to "your access to food is hereby terminated" then we have a real problem. And THAT is exactly what is coming. Cant rent, cant get on public transportation, cant get a job, cant take out a loan, cant associate with people that might be able to help you, cant eat. Literally trying to kill people by denying them the bare necessities. Thats how you get away with the Next Genocide and get away with it.

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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Warrior_of_Freedom again.

Someone cover me?

Covered.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

When it gets to "your access to food is hereby terminated" then we have a real problem. And THAT is exactly what is coming. Cant rent, cant get on public transportation, cant get a job, cant take out a loan, cant associate with people that might be able to help you, cant eat. Literally trying to kill people by denying them the bare necessities. Thats how you get away with the Next Genocide and get away with it.

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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Warrior_of_Freedom again.

Someone cover me?

i thought it's already like that in China

[euphemia]

They would not get much out of us. We are quiet, boring people, and we do play the Bible all night. Thqt’s not a brag. It’s a fact.

That probably means they would come for us first.

[DamianTV]

i thought it's already like that in China

It is, and it is COMING HERE. China at least is in your face about the behaviors it does not want. Of course it wants you to read a daily dose of mandatory propaganda an hour a day too. Here, you do NOT know what is deemed forbidden because they are much more backstabbery here. Here, they find it is to their advantage to keep you off balance and not tell you that your social media posts just wrecked your car insurance rate and got you fired by the AI that factored both those things in.

[Mach]

The Hotel owners would not be able to keep up with all of the Alexa replacements.

[devil21]

They are not doing this as an Amenity, they are doing it to monitor and categorize private behaviors that occur in their rooms in order to extract more money from people.

In a world without privacy, a person will fear their own thoughts because those are exactly what will end up getting them killed when their chips are turned off and they are not allowed to get a job because they are the wrong religion.

With a hefty side of possible blackmail material harvested from cheating spouses, drug deal recordings, etc. I will not stay in any hotel with any of that crap if I am aware of it.

From my limited viewpoint, it doesn't seem like many people are actually buying these spy machines as big tech brother had hoped. Perhaps people haven't been entirely dumbed down to complete retard status yet.

[Anti Globalist]

I will tear through every part of my hotel room if theres a Alexa hidden somewhere. I'll leave no stone unturned until I find it.