Another hotel "feature", now your room will come complete with an always-on snooping device. Even if you unplug the device, the hotel would probably have already shared your name and room number (through the alexa device ID) with Amazon. Trip passes through Boston and you stay in an alexa-featured marriott? See Boston-specific ads all over your favorite websites for the next couple of months.
You're welcome.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon...exa-to-hotels/
Anyone want to bet that our hotel committees and companies aren't going to be able to anonymize us, and everything we do during trip rest periods is going to end up in Amazon's customer databases? Because declining to accept the hotel's new "privacy" policy would require a complete re-negotiation with the hotel over service contract terms.
A truly random check-in ID number would work but that would play hell with hotel scheduling especially for short notice reservations. Using employee numbers would simply add our employee number to whatever other marketing data Amazon already has on us, and there's no guarantee that the hotel won't just copy it down and add it to the reservation data passed to Amazon anyhow.