Amazon Wants To Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom (vice.com)

On Wednesday, Amazon announced the Echo Look, the latest gadget in the company's new Echo-powered hardware lineup. Motherboard explains: The newly announced Echo Look is a virtual assistant with a microphone and a camera that's designed to go somewhere in your bedroom, bathroom, or wherever the hell you get dressed. Amazon is pitching it as an easy way to snap pictures of your outfits to send to your friends when you're not sure if your outfit is cute, but it's also got a built-in app called StyleCheck that is worth some further dissection. [...] "All photos and video captured with your Echo Look are securely stored in the AWS cloud and locally in the Echo Look app until a customer deletes them," a spokesperson for the company said. "You can delete the photos or videos associated with your account anytime in the Echo Look App." Motherboard also asked if Echo Look photos, videos, and the data gleaned from them would be sold to third parties; the company did not address that question.

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I might get one of these

[Osgeld]

Some hacker has the misfortune of seeing me butt ass, it would persuade them into a more legitimate profession PDQ

Good morning, Dave

[Anonymous Coward]

I see you're having trouble merging with your wife tonight.

May I suggest you update your Viagra drivers to the next version?

why?!?

[sootman]

I imagine only teenage girls would be superficial enough that they'd feel the need to dress and undress in front of an Internet-connected camera so their outfits could be.... ...

hang on, I need to order 10 of these and a copy of ORA's "Hacking the IoT".