Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
I&#x27;ve told my roommate I&#x27;m moving out if he ever buys an Alex&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Apple assistant device.<p>I have a microphone and I&#x27;ve been intending to get one of the open source solutions working and just tie it in to mpd, weather and a few other things. But all the processing should really be done on your own device, by hardware you own, software that&#x27;s open and that you configure, and not send up to someone else&#x27;s computer (aka &quot;the cloud&quot;).<p>Of course non-tech people probably wouldn&#x27;t bother because that&#x27;s a steep curve and you&#x27;re talking about more expensive devices to do on-board processing. There are some companies that are trying to make this more accessible to regular consumers. I hope we see a move in this direction.