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If you regard your privacy that highly that the very small change that the NSA will bug your Amazon Echo, then sure, don't buy it.

But the NSA/FBI/Virgina Police can:

get my emails from google

get my emails from my work

get my emails off my phone

read my texts, pix, and other cell phone information

listen to my phone calls

hack my shittily exposed to teh internet home server

get my facebook information

tap my ISP

search my house when I'm not there

bug my house

If they can force Amazon to record me against my will, they can force apple to. Or leveno to record on my laptop. Or the Xbox Kinect on my TV. If I were plotting to join ISIS, yea probably a bad move. Otherwise it's a very minor threat.




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