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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.
Nope nope nope nope nope god no nope.
Some hacker has the misfortune of seeing me butt ass, it would persuade them into a more legitimate profession PDQ
Gone are the days where you have to wonder is there's a camera watching you dress or watching you be intimate in your bedroom. You never have to wonder again, because the answer is simply "Yes"! We will absolutely record your most private moments. Not only that, but we can automatically share them with the people who have no need to know. Have your parents been worried about how well you've been eating since you moved out? We'll send them a video of your latest BM!
I see you're having trouble merging with your wife tonight.
May I suggest you update your Viagra drivers to the next version?
If you can't get dressed on your own without seeking the approval of others (who aren't even in the same room with you) -- then you're already failing at life.
I mean, I realize I'm a guy (and one of those "techie" types who is know not to care about clothing style as much as others). But this is ridiculous, no matter who you are. If you spent hard-earned money on pieces of clothing you've got hanging up in your closet, that means you liked them enough to buy them in the first place. You're just being petty and superficial if you start changing your mind about actually wearing what you, yourself liked and picked out, all because someone else (looking at a digital photo sent over the Internet) disagrees with you.
I think that something like this has the possibility of being really popular. People are really, really stupid, and have little sense of self respect any more.
I don't respond to AC's.
I felt a disturbance in the force, as if a billion teenage girls cried out all at once.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
This is honestly kind of a brilliant way to float a "presence" balloon. IMHO: At first Amazon didn't get what Echo was. They thought of it as an internet connected speaker, when in reality it was a modern day "Thing" from the Addams Family. I think they've learned that lesson, but one of the most important attributes of Thing is that it understood who was where, and who was addressing it. A lack of contextual awareness is what makes all automation suck. I don't want motion sensors to know if I moved, I want home automation that knows which room I'm in. I also think this is a shot across Apple's bow.
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How did the human race survive with just mirrors before this technology was developed?
Just fine, if you're actually looking for an answer.
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What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong.
I think this deserve a new concept of "Nope-finity" to be invented, just to have a proper answer.
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The NSA, CIA, FBI and local police are board....
People have got to be fucking crazy if they want this
I've been wondering lately if tech companies are just throwing technology at various populations to see what sticks. Is it cheaper to develop this crap and see if they stumble on something popular and trendy, or if they actually spend any time or effort researching and vetting ideas before developing them? Maybe I'm slowly going beige, but this idea just seems ludicrous to my dusty old brain.
There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
Times change. A quick purvey of the internet demonstrates women are posting a lot more than naked selfies up - for free - largely in exchange for instant validation.
There's so much amateur porn out there now that it is likely social norms and acceptance are rapidly being biased.
Chances are nobody cares WHAT you post online anymore.
..don't panic
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".
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Alexa? Does this dress make me look fat?
"No, the dress has nothing to do with it".
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
How Slashdot users would use this:
"Amazon, does this shirt and these trousers go together"
"No, red jeans should never be paired with Hawaiian shirts"
"Too late, it's already on my body"
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
This is where many stupidities collide. 1) 14 year old girl gets changed while talking on the phone 2) Says "It takes my picture when I say 'Photo me Echo'" 3) Echo takes picture of semi naked 14 year old 4) She says "And then I say 'Send it to everyone Echo'" 5) Picture goes to all her friends 6) School does random search of everyone's phone 7) All her friends charged with possession of Child porn and become sex offenders 8) Not sure who profits.
When the echo first came out, I thought the last thing I wanted in my house was an always-on microphone. I stand corrected.
Took me a few reads to realize you stand corrected because this is the new last thing you want. I originally read that as you changed your mind and like the amazon mic now.
Frankly these are all abominations, but the bedroom fashion camera still comes in second to the trivially hacked camera equipped vibrator...
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While I agree with your "nakedness shouldn't matter" sentiment, in the current moral and legal context having underage kids changing outfits in front of the internet-connected camera that automatically uploads images to the cloud is all kinds of problematic.
What would happen if a child wandered in front of the camera nude, and amazon stored that on their server -- would they be responsible for CP?
I care HOW they are USED.
They tell you in the summary, so your friends can tell you if your outfit is cute.
I think what the above poster wanted to say would have been more appropriately expressed as
HOW they are ABUSED
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