I read Amazon Alexa User Agreements

I read through the Amazon Alexa user agreement this morning because I was curious about how your voice was stored and used. What I was looking for was any excessive amount of personal data usage. The more I read into this, the more interesting it got and the more questions I had. I have referenced some interesting points that I cam across.

The first 2 points I found interesting was that your interactions with Alexa may be stored on servers outside which you live, and that interaction data is stored in a cloud. This could mean a lot of different things for a lot of different people. Possibly meaning that if you own Alexa outside the USA that it may be stored In the USA or visa versa. This could potentially mean that there may be different laws governing the saved data that we may have to decipher case by case. This reminds me of how online gambling websites are located outside the USA in order to legal operate inside the USA.

This next point is extremely vague and does imply that there is potential for release of information when believed to be appropriate to comply with law, Amazons conditions of use, and “other agreements”. Wow. So basically if you want to know what information could be released. You must know what laws Amazon is scanning for, all of Amazons Conditions of Use, and whatever “other agreements” means.

It is clear that Amazon Alexa is absolutely fishing and scanning for extra interest other than waiting for commands to play music or buy toilet paper. Im not saying that we have to worry about our safety, but we are potentially being observed and monitored far closer than we knew, all for the price of $49.99. Amazon is building user profiles around individuals to improve its ability to make sales and the funny part is that we are paying them to do it. I could go deeper into this rabbit hole but I fear it could make me loose my sanity. Our deeper personal information and even our basic personal information has real value, real dollar value that goes beyond just you as an individual. It is not worth paying money to give it away.

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