4GB in a span of 24 hours.

An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it’s mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo Show devices, which he said he “never” uses, exceeded 4 GB of data usage in 24 hours.

  • y0kai [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    2 days ago

    More likely it’s doing what Amazon has made it do. So, probably audio recordings and any other sensor data and metrics they can gather

    I agree this is likely the culprit. Having read the article though, he seems “sure it’s not spying”.