Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
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Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#2> Meanwhile, users of that newest Echo, the Echo Show, which has the screen and video feature, will get added services, it seems. The one that has jumped out at me first is called “Drop In” — which lets you make a call to someone without them even answering the phone first.
I wonder if this is opt-in or opt-out. Honestly if it's opt-out I think Amazon could have a huge backlash on its hands. Not from privacy-minded folks, but from ordinary people who suddenly have people listening to them/viewing them when they don't expect (unless Amazon really makes an effort to make that the expectation).
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#3> Meanwhile, users of that newest Echo, the Echo Show, which has the screen and video feature, will get added services, it seems. The one that has jumped out at me first is called “Drop In” — which lets you make a call to someone without them even answering the phone first. I wonder if this is opt-in or opt-out. Honestly if it's opt-out I think Amazon could have a huge backlash on its hands. Not from privacy-minded f…
The very next paragraph:
Alas, this is not being positioned as something mildly intrusive, nor as a creepy big brother-style service (which is the worst case scenario and one that Amazon has been taking pains to avoid in all of its Echo and Alexa products). Rather, Amazon emphasizes that it is opt-in, and a way to communicate with only the very closest members of your family.
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#4> Meanwhile, users of that newest Echo, the Echo Show, which has the screen and video feature, will get added services, it seems. The one that has jumped out at me first is called “Drop In” — which lets you make a call to someone without them even answering the phone first. I wonder if this is opt-in or opt-out. Honestly if it's opt-out I think Amazon could have a huge backlash on its hands. Not from privacy-minded f…
Clearly opt-in, as the next paragraph states
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#5This is "free" as in Amazon is free to record your calls and messages and use them either as training data for AI or targeting data for advertising.
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#6This is "free" as in Amazon is free to record your calls and messages and use them either as training data for AI or targeting data for advertising.
Yeah sounds like a bad idea.
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#7"If they're not selling something to you, they're selling you" -Anonymous
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#8"If they're not selling something to you, they're selling you" -Anonymous
Well they are selling you the device...
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#9This is "free" as in Amazon is free to record your calls and messages and use them either as training data for AI or targeting data for advertising.
Where does it say this?
Re: Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
#10This is "free" as in Amazon is free to record your calls and messages and use them either as training data for AI or targeting data for advertising.
Do you have a different level of expected privacy with Amazon's services than you do with Apple, Google, or Microsoft?
Alexa Calling will compete with FaceTime, Google Duo, and Skype (amongst others). Do you feel the same way about those other services or is your concern specifically related to the Echo platform?