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Em :official_verified:

After Amazon's news this week,
I feel the need to share this advice from my Privacy Guides article again:

Notify guests if you are
using a smart speaker 🔇

If you are using a smart speaker device in your home such as Amazon's Echo (Alexa), Apple's HomePod (Siri), Google's Nest,

Inform your guests about it when they enter your home ⚠️

These devices have the capacity
to record all conversations, and there has already been instances of accidental privacy invasion reported about this 🔓

Even if you don't mind yourself,
offer your guests to UNPLUG your smart speaker while they are visiting you 🔌

privacyguides.org/articles/202

www.privacyguides.org · Privacy is Also Protecting the Data of Others
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#Privacy#SmartSpeaker#Amazon
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Plastic Model Robot

Hey #HomeAssistant gurus, looking for some ideas here. I ditched my Echo devices, and I'm looking to replace them with HA alternatives. Mainly, I just need something Bluetooth- and (preferably) Internet-enabled that I can link Spotify to, and possibly setup a timer, weather service, etc (though those last two aren't as critical).

I've never used HA before, so fire away with any suggestions! Thanks in advance!

#smarthome#smartspeaker#goodbyealexa
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M. Grégoire

Has anyone tried #OpenVoiceOS ? What was your impression if so?

"OpenVoiceOS is a community-driven, open-source voice AI platform for creating custom voice-controlled ​interfaces across devices with NLP, a customizable UI, and a focus on privacy and security."

openvoiceos.org/

(I'd like to have a #SmartSpeaker-type device, but I don't want Amazon, Google or Microsoft to listen to my home.)

www.openvoiceos.orgHomeHome page of OVOS
#OVOS
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Ian

Advice please on getting a #smartspeaker for my mum.
Her #eyesight is deteriorating and things like driving the LG tv by aiming a stupid pointer on the screen are infuriating.
Also just to be able to say "Call…" to make an old-school phone call would be great.
She has an Android phone and an iPad, both are becoming difficult to use.
Pointers welcome on what Apple / Google / Amazon / others can actually do to help my mum.
#accessibility

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hauswirtschaft_info

Die britische Verbraucherschutzorganisation Which? hat #Haushaltsgeräte auf #Datenschutzverstöße untersucht. Manche #Airfryer werden mit einer APP von #Xiaomi ausgeliefert. Die verwendet Tracker von #Facebook und #TikTok.
Which? fand #Smartspeaker die umfangreich Userdaten für Facebook, #Google und die Marketing Firma #Urbanairship sammeln.
#Hauswirtschaft
Air fryers among home devices with ‘excessive’ surveillance
theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devicesBy Robert Booth
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skua

@TorvaFirmus @epp

This #Alexa failing sounds like Google #SmartSpeaker failing about (?) 3 years ago.

I suspected Google switched to using more on-device processing of speech and used less of the remote processing. And the device became useless.

We've since, due to #PrivacyConcerns, and reading that Google executives would not have smart speakers in their own homes, switched off both Alexa and Google. So we've got no current observations to add.

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ctrg195

Why don't smart speakers have USB type C?

For example, Amazon echo and Google nest mini have proprietary barrel charger plugs.

What is the point of a proprietary barrel charger plug on a device like a small smart speaker which may be occasionally moved around? It makes much more sense to have USBC, the common connector,for power on those devices, and yet, stupidly, they have a proprietary charging port. It makes zero sense to me. Does someone care to explain this to me?

Why does Amazon echo not have USBC?

Why are there proprietary barrel charger supporters

The whole point of USBC was to be the one connector for everything

#usbc
#usbcpowerdelivery
#usbtypec
#usb4
#commonport
#oneconnector
#1connector
#onecommonconnector
#onecommoncharger
#standardization
#consumerelectronics
#smartspeaker

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