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posted by martyb on Monday August 20 2018, @12:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the need-to-add-some-dits-to-do-morse-code dept.

Saint Louis University is placing 2,300 Echo Dots in student living spaces

Saint Louis University has announced that it will be placing Amazon Echo Dot devices, powered by Alexa for Business, in every student residence hall room or student apartment on campus. While other colleges, like Arizona State University, have put Echo Dots in student housing before, SLU says this is the first time a college will equip every student living space with an Amazon Alexa-enabled device.

[...] In regards to privacy concerns, SLU says that because it is using the Amazon Alexa for Business platform, every Echo Dot is managed by a central system that is not tied to any individual accounts. No personal information will be collected so all use is anonymous. The Echo Dots will also not keep any recordings of questions that are asked. If a student wants to opt out of using the Echo Dot given to them, they can simply store it, unplugged, and turn it in at the end of the school year.

Also at Engadget.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday August 20 2018, @09:29PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday August 20 2018, @09:29PM (#723924) Journal

    Read the terms and conditions

    Without limiting any of the other licenses you grant in this agreement, you hereby grant Alexa and its affiliates a royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right and license to Your Trademarks, Content, data, information, photographs, images, videos and other materials and items you provide or make available to Alexa (collectively, “Your Materials”) including, without limitation, the right to use, reproduce, perform, display, distribute, adapt, modify, re-format, create derivative works of, and otherwise commercially or non-commercially exploit in any manner, any and all of Your Materials; provided, however, that nothing in this agreement will prevent or impair our right to use Your Materials without your consent to the extent that such use is allowable without a license from you or your affiliates under applicable law (e.g., fair use under United States copyright law, referential use under trademark law, or valid license from a third party). “ ETC, ETC
    https://www.alexa.com/help/terms [alexa.com]

    They OWN your shit, man.
    Mycroft is nothing like that.

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