That very thing happened to a couple in Portland, Oregon, after Amazon Alexa allegedly recorded their conversation and sent it to a friend. Danielle and her husband got a call from someone in their contacts two weeks ago, telling them to unplug their devices immediately. He told them he ...
A woman in Portland, Oregon, says her Amazon Echo secretly recorded her conversation and sent the recording to a contact on her husband's phone. Amazon said it was the result of an "unlikely" series of events.
But after I saw a report that an Alexa-enabled speaker owned by a family in Portland, Oregon, had recorded a conversation and sent it to a contact, I started wondering: what is it picking up on at my house when we’re not talking to it directly? So I checked my Ale...
Amazon Echo device recorded a couple's private conversation and sent it to one of their contacts, igniting new privacy concerns about the voice-activated gadgets. The two found about it when they received a phone call two weeks ago from one of the husband's employees telling them to "Unplug...
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For example, an Oregon couple had to unplug their Alexa device, Amazon's virtual assistant, as their private conversation wasrecorded and sent to one of their friends on their contact list. In another incident, a German man accidentally received access to1,700 Alexa audio files belonging to a...
So, what do Alexa’s listening habits mean for your cybersecurity? Everything you’ve ever asked Alexa is recorded and stored by Amazon. Ostensibly, this is to help the tool improve. However, if that information were to fall into the hands of bad actors, it could lead to hackercyberattac...
However, there is a major concern about the privacy matter of the recorded conversations in the Alexa-enabled devices. Each person values privacy and they feel offended and uncomfortable when their private conversations are being listened to by other people. Your private information can be sent to...
Amazon Alexa privacy concerns abound. Echo smart speaker devices have been connected with some pretty big blunders, includingaccidentally recording a conversationand sending it to a colleague. Amazon also accidentally sent the entirety of oneGerman user’s Echo voice recordingsto the wrong person. ...
On May 24, 2018, Portland, Oregon localTV station Kiro 7reported that an Amazon Alexa device recorded a private conversation, then sent it out to a random contact. Amazon confirmed the incident, and attributed it to an “unlikely” string of events that caused Alexa to mistakingly interpret ...