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Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: from Mar 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
It's easy to flap your hands at this thievery and say, "surveillance capitalists gonna surveillance capitalism," which confines this fuckery to the realm of ideology (that is, "Amazon is ripping you off because of bad ideas"). But that would be wrong. What's going on here is a *material* phenomenon, grounded in *specific policy choices* and by unpacking the material basis for this absolutely unforgivable move, we can understand how we got here - and where we should go next.
Start with Amazon's excuse for destroying your privacy: they want to do AI processing on the audio Alexa captures, and that is too computationally intensive for on-device processing. But that only raises another question: *why* does Amazon want to do this AI processing, even for customers who are happy with their Echo as-is, at the risk of infuriating and alienating millions of customers?
For Big Tech companies, AI is part of a "growth story" - a narrative about how these companies that have already saturated their markets will still continue to grow. It's hard to overstate how dominant Amazon is: they are the leading cloud provider, the most important retailer, and the majority of US households already subscribe to Prime. This may sound like a good place to be, but for Amazon, it's actually very dangerous.
Amazon has a sky-high price/earnings ratio - about triple the ratio of rivals like Target. That scorching P/E ratio reflects a belief by investors that Amazon will continue growing. Companies with very high p/e ratios have an unbeatable advantage relative to mature competitors - they can buy things with their stock, rather than paying cash for them. If Amazon wants to hire a key person, or acquire a key company, it can pad its offer with its extremely high-value, growing stock.
Being able to buy things with stock instead of money is a powerful advantage, because money is scarce and exogenous (Amazon must acquire money from someone else, like a customer), while new Amazon stock can be conjured into existence by typing zeroes into a spreadsheet:
For Amazon to double its US Prime subscriber base, it will have to establish a breeding program to produce tens of millions of new Americans, raising them to maturity, getting them gainful employment, and then getting them to sign up for Prime.
Almost by definition, a dominant firm ceases to be a growing firm, and lives with the constant threat of a stock revaluation as investors belief in future growth crumbles and they punch the "sell" button, hoping to liquidate their now-overvalued stock ahead of everyone else.
For Big Tech companies, a growth story isn't an ideological commitment to cancer-like continuous expansion. It's a practical, material phenomenon, driven by the need to maintain investor confidence that there are still worlds for the company to conquer.
That's where "AI" comes in. The hype around AI serves an important material need for tech companies.
By lumping an incoherent set of poorly understood technologies together into a hot buzzword, tech companies can bamboozle investors into thinking that there's plenty of growth in their future.
OK, so that's the material need that this asshole tactic satisfies. Next, let's look at the technical dimension of this rug-pull.
How is it possible for Amazon to modify your Echo *after you bought it*? After all, you own your Echo. It is your property.
Every first year law student learns this 18th century definition of property, from Sir William Blackstone:
> That sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
If the Echo is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it?
Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it a felony to "bypass an access control" for a copyrighted work:
That means that once Amazon reaches over the air to stir up the guts of your Echo, no one is allowed to give you a tool that will let *you* get inside *your* Echo and change the software back.
Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it requires breaking the digital lock that controls access to the firmware, and that's a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense.
The Echo is an internet-connected device that treats its owner as an adversary and is designed to facilitate over-the-air updates by the manufacturer that are adverse to the interests of the owner.
Giving a manufacturer the power to downgrade a device *after* you've bought it, in a way you can't roll back or defend against is an invitation to run the playbook of the Darth Vader MBA, in which the manufacturer replies to your outraged squawks with "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further":
By "twiddling" the knobs and dials that control the prices, costs, search rankings, recommendations, and core features of products and services, tech firms can play a high-speed shell-game that shifts value away from customers and suppliers and toward the firm and its executives:
But how can this be legal? You bought an Echo and explicitly went into its settings to disable remote monitoring of the sounds in your home, and now Amazon - without your permission, against your express wishes - is going to start sending recordings from inside your house to its offices. Isn't that against the law?
Well, you'd think so, but US consumer privacy law is *unbelievably* backwards.
Congress hasn't passed a consumer privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home. That is the last technological privacy threat that Congress has given any consideration to:
Scumbag data-brokers you've never heard of openly boast about having dossiers on 91% of adult internet users, detailing who we are, what we watch, what we read, who we live with, who we follow on social media, what we buy online and offline, where we buy, when we buy, and why we buy:
To a first approximation, every kind of privacy violation is legal, because the concentrated commercial surveillance industry spends millions lobbying against privacy laws, and those millions are a bargain, because they make billions off the data they harvest with impunity.
Regulatory capture is a function of monopoly. Highly concentrated sectors don't need to engage in "wasteful competition," which leaves them with gigantic profits to spend on lobbying, which is extraordinarily effective, because a sector that is dominated by a handful of firms can easily arrive at a common negotiating position and speak with one voice to the government:
Starting with the Carter administration, and accelerating through every subsequent administration except Biden's, America has adopted an explicitly pro-monopoly policy, called the "consumer welfare" antitrust theory. 40 years later, our economy is riddled with monopolies:
Every part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of that policy choice: "growth stock" narratives about AI, twiddling, DMCA 1201, the Darth Vader MBA, the end of legal privacy protections. These are material things, not ideological ones. They exist to make a very, very small number of people very, very rich.
Your Echo is your property, you paid for it. You paid for the product and you are still the product:
Now, Amazon says that the recordings your Echo will send to its data-centers will be deleted as soon as it's been processed by the AI servers. Amazon's made these claims before, and they were lies. Amazon eventually had to admit that its employees and a menagerie of overseas contractors were secretly given millions of recordings to listen to and make notes on:
Fool me once, etc. I will bet you a testicle* that Amazon will eventually have to admit that the recordings it harvests to feed its AI are *also* being retained and listened to by employees, contractors, and, possibly, randos on the internet.
reminds me of the East German telephone which was wired up to backfeed audio from the room to the Stasi (all analogue telephones of that era can be altered to do this, DDR built this wiring change into the telephone set), and even when this was a plug and socket phone which could have been unplugged many didn't do so (as they didn't want to miss the telephone calls and even having a phone was a privilege in those days)
As nations cancel their contracts to buy F-35 and other military equipment, one can be assured that similarly insecure post-purchase modification tech exists in those multi-billion dollar items.
Bought a military drone that uses Starlink? Can you be sure Musk won't shut it off in the middle of a fight for your survival as a nation?
Monitoring wildfires for waterbomber planes? What happens if #KochNetwork wants to evade lawsuits for climate change & shuts it off?
the highest p/e industry is health, which is especially disturbing when you consider politicians investment incentives... A public option could hurt some of them a lot. Stopping the expansion of monopolies is bad because they're the high-growth parts of their portfolios
Allowing politicians to invest such that they're aligned against their constituents opens the door to abuse. And that's without considering lobbying, cushy post-politics jobs, speaking gigs, book deals and the like.
just in case you needed one more reason to cancel your Amazon account. I dropped mine the day the Washington Post non-endorsement broke. I honestly do not miss it
What constitutes a digital lock? It seems to me that the only difference between a flag that prevents an action being taken by a program, and a cryptographically secure block on an action is the amount of time required to make the action doable; the intention behind an option flag and a cryptographic lock are identical — stopping something from happening. Why is ignoring a user-set option flag not circumventing a digital lock and so illegal under the DMCA?
That then comes down to implementation details and would be denied by finding that the implementation is defective. Is any defective implementation of a lock not a lock? By definition, if a lock can be defeated, it's not an effective means of access control. Obviously being facetious here, but it does point to the idiocy of the legislation.
This probably means a blind friend of mine who keeps Echo on 24/7 will have all their intimate conversations with carers kept as data. Stuff such as catheterisation, mobility, diet, relationships that will come back to him as advertising.
Edit: I’m obviously barking up the wrong tree re: several aspects of Echo listening in. I appreciate the conversation this then started. I think the take away is: at what point after wake up does Echo/Alexa stop listening if it’s not told to stop.
Concentration of power is the disease and "consumer welfare" style anti-trust is the infection point. But now it's metastasised to include no meaningful privacy, regulatory capture, Citizens United etc.
The US needs meaningful anti-trust but how can that be achieved when politicians and agencies are bought and paid for. Even Biden didn't prioritize this meta policy except for the very meaningful appointment of Linda Khan.
I used to have an Echo Show next to my bed. I was recently divorced and I just started dating. I hope whomever was listening on the other end heard some shit.
You could compensate for broken speakers by cranking up the volume on others that still work. It turns out that the brain does the same thing when damaged hair cells in the ear lead to hearing loss – and this could be causing your tinnitus.
Interesting. A friend of mine works in the hearing aid industry. He claimed that everyone should get a hearing aid device as one gets older, before we were even aware about hearing loss. I thought he was after more 💰, but this kind of suggest than he had a point.
Whilst away I managed to see Hound tor again, this is not a great photo by any means …. The last time I was there I was teaching photography in 2010. I’ve not been able to travel there since I became ill and a wheelchair user in 2013 so it was wonderful to see it again. It really has a looming presence as you approach it. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
I agree. We are witnessing the end of the post WWII world. The #USA is devolving into something else. What we knew is not coming back and #canada has to pivot permanently.
Yeah, NATO is over, when their meeting doesn't invite #mairikkka but does invite #japan and #australia, and then a French nuclear attack sub shows up in our base in #halifax.
Yup. New era. Let go of 20c, and even the 911 world order.
(Also, I didn't know anyone thought #dougford is who should be leading our #mairikkkan counterattack? He's all about him.)
Another week. Another museum. This week the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. I came here largely to see this one tool chest.
It's the Mästermyr toolchest. A 1000 year old chest filled with blacksmithing and woodworking tools. It's an incredibly important find. Beautifully preserved in the bog. The tools are wonderful. I'd seen pictures and read about these tools, but to see them up close. That hack saw is exquisite.
DHS announced that more Columbia students had been arrested or ‘self-deported’ after their visas were canceled in connection to pro-Palestine protests.
Ugh... that took awhile - finally off #Xhitter / #Twitter / #X - had to unfollow thousands and remove all my posts and replies to make my account 'worthless'. #antifa
Long live the Fediverse indeed! I appreciate this environment more and more each day.
I ditched Twitter before it was X, in the November 2022 wave, and for a short time, I missed it. But I really enjoy the community I’ve built here, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.
@hannu_ikonen @KimberlyN Ugh - yeah, so far (2 years) I have not had any trolls or bots - and only one scammer on the fediverse between my 2 accounts. Oh, and one stalker (but he was harmless, I didn't understand when he first contacted me, naively replied and once I let him know that "no, I am not into that", he left me alone - didn''t even have to block him.
Nobody likes spam messages, but some of them contain rather fascinating scams. Case in point, [Ben Tasker] recently got a few romance scam emails that made him decide to take a poke at the scam beh…
The #Pororari River track in New Zealand follows a limestone #gorge. There are some lookouts with spectacular views of the river and the gorge with its very scenic limestone cliffs. Have you been here? #NewZealandbackpackandsnorkel.com/Hokitik…
Paparoa National Park is known for its limestone karst formations, caves, diverse flora and fauna, outdoor activities and the spectacular Charleston Glowworm Cave.
Am I the only one who thinks that could be his actual epitaph?Episode: "Patty Hype"#SpongeBobSquarePants #SpongeBob #SpongeBobClips #SpongeBobFunnyMomentsTHI...
Putting aside from the fact that that is very unlikely (and mean that the rich would pay most of the taxes which is what Republicans don't want), that would mean going back to time before US Civil War, before income tax.
He's not planning to balance the budget. He's planning tax cuts - for his pals. This will increase the deficit, just as it has every single time the GOP did it before. 🤷♂️
Hello, #FediVerse! I am new here and I am looking for my people so that I can follow them and maybe even have conversations. Are you my people?
I’m migrating from Instagram, where I did more lurking than posting. It’s taking me some time to find my way around over here.
I’m particularly interested in finding #Horse people, and people who are into #ClickerTraining, #PositiveReinforcement, and #AnimalBehavior. I worked in #AnimalRescue for five years, but man is that a hard, draining career. I am currently recovering from pretty severe burnout. But I still love my local #
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Hello, #FediVerse! I am new here and I am looking for my people so that I can follow them and maybe even have conversations. Are you my people?
I’m migrating from Instagram, where I did more lurking than posting. It’s taking me some time to find my way around over here.
All of my horses are #Adopted because hey, I was in a position to provide them a home when they needed it. No shame if that’s not how you got your horse(s) - I just find that if I think too hard about looking for another herd member, the universe provides. So I try not to think that too hard, because the ones I have now are plenty! 😛
My #horses are varied in size from a tall #Percheron to a chonky little #Haflinger, and all in their mid-twenties. They live with me at a rural #HousingCooperative and kindly allow themselves to be petted and played with by local community members in an outreach program that I started this winter. It’s still a pretty small endeavor. We’ll see where it goes. I’ll probably post about that sometimes.
I hope this reaches you, #HorseLovers and #ClickerTrainers! Also, anyone else who wants to say hi! There is a long list of other topics I may post about in my bio, so I won’t list everything in this already rather long post. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth
I was looking for something else in my old photos and came across these pictures of violets taken in the NC wilderness, in Pisgah National Forest, a few years ago.
I still haven't gotten over the fact that we can carry in our pockets cameras capable of pictures like this.
I remember doing research and using microfiche* and occasionally archives on 35mm rolls . Some libraries even could print frames/pages, if you paid. I believe the Bell & Howell readers still were being produced in the late 1980s!
[* For those that are too young to remember, the reader looked like a CRT, but was a back-projection screen. Purely optical / mechanical with a bright lamp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfor… ]
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission has launched from Florida, taking new crew members to the ISS and allowing Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to fly back home as soon ...
Hello from Aurora Bear! ✨ Beneath the sky’s celestial flare, A bear is born from fire and air. Reds and greens in frozen flight, A whisper of the Northern Lights #art #ceramics #gaybear #furryart #sciart
‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds - theguardian.com/science/2025/m… "Ancient #Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations" #cuneiform
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