July 16, 2014

Millions of Americans installing ‘perfect spying device’ in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations

Amazon.com is building the CIA’s new $600 million data center, reports the Financial Times. (1) At the same time Amazon.com is building this massive cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, the company is also shipping millions of Fire TV set-top devices to customers who are placing them in their private homes. I have one myself, and it’s a terrific piece of hardware for delivering Prime video content. In fact, in terms of its usability and specs, it’s far superior to Roku or Netflix-capable devices. Fire TV is, hands down, the best set-top video delivery device on the market today. 

But there’s something about it that always struck me as odd: it has no power button. There’s no power button on the remote, and there’s no power button on the box. It turns out there’s no way to power the device off except for unplugging it.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

now add in amazon drone delivery
and the new amazon smart phone the fire fone , that has 5 front facing cameras ,and what like 2 more on the back

but mami you do sound like you are trying to sell us on it
, but i have to say amazon is the only company where you can get an actual living breathing human on the phone or even on your device screen, and a non indian , american english speaking one at that , so they do have the best customer service , cant even compare with anyone else, on the other hand they are being sued by their warehouse workers for treating them like shit