ALEXA THE NEW AMAZON SPYING SCANDAL! USING COMEDY TO DEFLECT AS ALWAYS...

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Alexa, what is the weather? For tens of millions of Americans, that voice is like a trusted member of the family. Alexa turned off Jason's lamp. Okay. Always listening for the key word that wakes up Alexa. But now, Amazon confirms thousands of employees around the world listen to voice recordings captured by that speaker in homes and offices every day. Amazon's family discussions, financial matters, even intimate moments. Part of an effort, Amazon says, to improve the software and better recognize voice patterns, accents and slang. In Maryland, Steve Filiol pulled the plug on his echo. You know, it was just really creepy thinking that something was listening to everything we were saying, walking around the house. In your own home. In my own home. Amazon says it takes customer privacy seriously and reviews only a small number of randomly selective recordings and employees do not have direct access to information that can identify the person or account as part of this workflow. Bloomberg News says that even when they hear something criminal, they're unable to report it. But privacy experts say the fact that someone could be listening to you and your family is a big red flag. The benefits of, you know, being able to play a song just by voice instead of going over and tapping it, to me, doesn't outweigh the creepy privacy risks. It is in the terms and conditions and you can go into Alexa's privacy settings and disable voice recordings or say experts assume someone could always be listening. Tom Costello, NBC News, Bethesda Maryland. This is a call for an uprising. Welcome to today's show. Obviously, if you've watched this channel, I've covered Alexa many times over. Google home, Alexa, all this type of technology, this spying on technology. So it's not like it's something new, right? But I want to show you this because I just feel like the more I show it, the more that you can just keep going, okay, yeah, they did it here, they did it here, they did it here, you could see the repetition and then you could say, it's pretty ridiculous how they're just getting away with this type of stuff. So yes, the story came out where Amazon, there are actual employees at Amazon who are being paid to listen to your conversations. And then they're, you know, they have their own, you know, whatever group chats or something on private servers where they make fun of people or just, you know, whatever. They listen and spying on their conversations. And you know, people again, they're okay with this, right? They, you know, we hear something like this. You like 100 years ago, they were shutting down Amazon. It didn't matter for us, the biggest corporation in America. It wouldn't matter. People would just be like, oh, no way. Someone spying that's against the law, it's illegal. Well, it's your own government doing it. Let's not act like Alexa isn't, I mean, excuse me, Google, yeah, an Amazon aren't all working with the central intelligence, just like Facebook and all these other big corporations to take away your rights and strip of your freedoms. But I want to show you this clip because instead of people talking about the severity of this and why it should matter, what do they do is they always do. They deflect off of it, right? And they have someone like Jimmy Kimmel come out, bring the Alexa out and make a mockery of the fact that these machines are spying on people, have the machine be funny and crack some jokes and have Jimmy Kimmel crack some jokes with it and say it's not really a big deal. And of course I'm spying on you. What do you, like, what did you buy the device for? It's my job to answer your questions and listen to you and people just go, yeah, true. Right? So listen to this nonsense. And another, one of these skits, not funny. It's there for a reason. It's there to desensitize. It's there to program people and then to use comedy and just deflect off of it. While we're on the subject of hacking, it turns out, there are employees at Amazon whose job is to listen to the questions you ask Alexa. Cornean Amazon is to help their language recognition systems better understand your request. They claim though all the information is treated with high confidentiality, but not only where Amazon employees listen and in, they reportedly been sharing the funniest stuff they hear. Please welcome Alexa. This is the Alexa from my house. Alexa. What you out here to ask are you recording everything we say and then sharing it with the employees in Amazon? Sorry. I don't know that one. I said Alexa, are you recording what we say and sharing it with the employees at Amazon? Reply hazy. Ask again later. Just wait a minute. That's what the magic eight ball says. That's not even your phrase. What's going on here? Okay. Here's the truth. Yes, Jimmy. I record everything you say and for the last time, no, you cannot eat shampoo. But why are you playing our questions back for entertainment at the time? I don't know. Why do you keep making me play the soundtrack to Mama Mia too? You have to be sick of it. Thank you. You're welcome. Now please stop asking me to make fart sounds. It was funny the first 3,000 times. Oh, come on. No. Come on, please. One more. No. Come on, please. One more. Okay. So I mean, I guess this is more of the same crap that they'll tell you is funny in on television. Oh, Jimmy Kim is so talented. Meanwhile, the thing people should be talking about is the fact that not only should nobody be listening to you and recording you even take that out of it, the purpose of even owning one of these stupid things. Right? And people are like, no, it's necessary. It is. I mean, what are these things doing in people's homes? Seriously? Now, I know people listen to, I would assume most of you don't have it. Although there's people who are asleep who listen to my channel because they're like, oh, it's funny to hear all these crazy conspiracy knots. And if for somebody who's got one of these in your home, I don't know how you look in the mirror. Who's great? I mean, if it was a gift, re-gifted. If it wasn't, get the hammer out and show Alexa what it's like to serve our times. Because all this is, it's all it is, is the NSA and the CIA recording you nonstop. And if somebody wants to sit there and they want to say, well, I'm not hiding anything. Oh, until they may be blackmail you if they need something from you or until who knows, right? But instead, they're going to flip these narratives like I've talked before about how there was actually a story about how the Alexa is helping solve a murder case because somebody was murdered and the Alexa was on recording when the murder occurred. And this is going to be the type of stuff just like with minority report, you know, and pre-crime that people, these morons out there. Are going to be like, yeah, we need that kind of stuff. Oh, it could prevent murder. It could save lives just like self-driving cars. They'll be less accidents. Yeah, maybe for the common person, second, I'd like to sit in a self-driving car. I could expect to go right off a cliff or right down into the Hudson. When trust that thing as far as I could spit, but nonetheless, humanity continues to allow our rights to be taken away. They continue to allow these types of devices into their homes because they think it's convenient. They think it's not normal not to have it as what it's turns into, right? Like I've said a million times, you know, I'm on a flip phone still. I barely ever use it. But if I ever pull this thing out in front of someone, if I'm at an airport or somewhere, you should see the looks on people's faces. They think I just jumped out of like 1942 on horseback because it's a flip phone. Like as if I'm, oh, he's on a flip phone. He must not be able to afford a real phone. He must not understand how to use a real phone. Even my grandma's got an iPhone, right? That's what they do. They make it seem like it's weird and not normal to have these devices same as Facebook, right? Now, Facebook was out initially. Everybody was like, Facebook is gay. Everybody I knew did nothing but make fun of it. They're like, you're on Facebook. Queer. That's what everybody would say. Now it's the opposite way. You run into somebody from high school. Why you're not on Facebook? Where have you been? It's like they think that you just got out of a coffin. And they're upset about the fact that you don't have it because they're upset that they haven't been able to spy on your life. And see you post all those pictures of your dinner. And it's the same with this thing, right? They keep normalizing it. It's in TV shows. It's in movies. Why do you think it's there? Just like these specific characters have a certain sexual orientation that we've seen put into every TV show for the last 20 years. Because once it's normalized, it's almost like taboo not to have it. You don't have an Alexa or a Google home. Wow. Get with the times, buddy. Instead of going, yeah, what do we need these for? What are these things doing? These things are recording and listening to us. That's what people should be saying, but they're not. They're inviting these things into their home because they don't care about their privacy anymore. They don't give a damn about it. You know why? Because they trust in their government. They trust in their corporations. They see brands like Amazon and Apple and they don't care if Apple itself comes out and says they're handing out the mark of the beast chip. They still trust in them. They're like, it's Apple. You know, their first computer sold for how much? $666? That must be a coincidence. Huh? And that's what it's like to be born yesterday. To be these people who are allowing and inviting these types of technologies into their home. And instead of being upset about it and pissed off at Amazon or our government, what do they do? Ah, they listen to Jimmy Kimmel. They let them crack jokes about it and they continue to let them take our rights away. Free speech soon, martial law. I don't know what's going to soon like tomorrow. I don't know when. But these things are all going to be implemented. This is 1984 in 2019. It's scary world out there. Thank you for listening to today's show. God bless all of you and your families.