"I don't love Amazon, but I love ginned up outrage over tech the author never bothered to understand even less."
And 99% of Echo owners disagree with this. No one cares if a reporter mixed up "amazon is starting to spy on you tomorrow" vs "amazon has been spying on you since the first echo was launched". Only amazon would make an argument like "yeah but we've been doing this for years now and no one made a big deal about it..."
Right. But you have to admit this sounds a bit like labelling Cereal "arsenic free". Really helpful to know but the sudden announcement hides that it's always been that way and implies others aren't. In truth this is probably how they all work and always have, but such a headline wouldn't ding Amazon sales.
I genuinely can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or whether you're saying that you appreciated the link to the XKCD. If the former, then I apologise.
And 99% of Echo owners disagree with this. No one cares if a reporter mixed up "amazon is starting to spy on you tomorrow" vs "amazon has been spying on you since the first echo was launched". Only amazon would make an argument like "yeah but we've been doing this for years now and no one made a big deal about it..."