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Echo is listening, but Amazon's not talking
Amazon has a transparency problem. Three years ago, the retail giant became the last major tech company to reveal how many subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders it received for customer data in a half-year period. While every other tech giant had regularly published its government request figures for years, spurred on by accusations of participation in government surveillance, Amazon had been largely forgotten.
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Anyone who thinks for a moment that the 3-letter agencies aren't giving them a pile of cash for the data is naive. An always-on microphone in your house that isn't subject to 4A protections because it's a "business record" is an NSA wet dream.