Goodbye Privacy, Hello Alexa, By Rory Caroll

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In the essay “Goodbye Privacy,Hello Alexa:Amazon Echo, the home robot hears it all”, the author Rory Caroll introduce us to a new device capable to respond and store automatically our personal information. Based on his experience with Alexa, Caroll talked about the benefits and disadvantages of having this robot at home. However, despite Alexa seem to be useful, I think this invention remains an unnecessary danger I would avoid in my home or my life. I do not deny Alexa is convenient in some ways when I consider all the features she has, on the other hand she could make people develop a sort of Laziness and Dependence. Because of Alexa can generate a lot of information, this will discourage people to make physical and intellectual efforts. For examples, no …show more content…

Alexa has the ability to listen to our conversations, record our personal information by catching every single words saying and store them. The robot can respond even we don’t formulate any request. It is like Alexa could think for us and anticipate on our desires. Referring to the essay, Caroll gives us an example of Alexa spying and recording when he says.” No proudest moment but I still listen to it-my pathetic weedling-because the robot recorded, saved and uploaded it to the cloud.” Caroll wrote again that “the device after all, was uploading personal data to Amazon servers”. Really !!! I could not imagine having all my habits, preferences or non –preferences, my opinions, my words go to Amazon servers storage where anyone could find or use them on their own interest without my concern. With Alexa, the corporations have free pass to spy us and introduce to our life without any permissions. Caroll reported it when he affirmed that," It felt creepy" after he discovered he was spied by Alexa when he received an advertisement about diapers without any request of this kind following a conversation he had with his wife about

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