Amazon Locks User Out of Smart Home Devices Over "Racism"

[SactoDoug]

An Amazon delivery driver misheard the automated greeting from a Eufy doorbell. He reported that the homeowner made a racist remark to him as he made the delivery. Amazon locked down this man's account which locked him out of all of the Amazon smart home devices.

https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/06/12/amazon-disable-home-network-echo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s

IMO, you should NEVER give to any outside person or entity the ability to remotely disable your home devices. All of those connected devices and cloud services is just a vulnerability that allows someone you don't know to control your devices.

[ibanezfoo]

Now think about why the government wants to do away with cash and resources other than electricity…

[SactoDoug]

Here is the story from the man himself. He is a black man who works for Microsoft. Luckily he had backup plans. He switched his devices over to self hosted and Siri to run his smart home until Alexa was back online.

His first statement in the video is the most important. If you buy a device, you should own it. You don't really own it if anyone can remotely turn it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onpy_gGnyU