Amazon Echo Dot speakers work like many other virtual assistant-type products. They analyze a person’s incoming voice signal to detect what the user said. However, news broke in 2019 that Amazon hires workers to listen to customers’ Alexa conversations. Amazon lets people review and delete sto...
To elicit privacy concerns from a usercentric perspective, the authors performed a thorough analysis of 128 online reviews of consumers of smart home hubs - including Amazon Echo, Google Home, Wink and Insteon. The reviews expressed users' concerns about privacy. The reviews were coded and ...
The popularity of voice-activated artificial intelligence (voice AI) has grown rapidly as people continue to use smart speakers such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home to support everyday tasks. However, little is known about how loneliness relates to voice AI use, or the potential mediators in th...
Amazon fails to clearly explain how to delete information collected about children through Echo Dot Kids Edition.Our tests revealed that deleting voice recordings or individual items in the activity screen does not actually delete the underlying information. ...
6.2.1 Technical and Psychological Measures Some of the users' concerns can be related to real-world examples of potential or actual attacks: For example, in 2018 Newman [62] described how a vulnerability (that has then been fixed) in Amazon Echo's API could be used to turn an Echo into...
Blu is a key member of Amazon’sPrime Exclusive Phonesprogram, which offered discounts on unlocked phones in exchange for ads on the lock screen. “Since Nov 2016 when the initial privacy concern was reported by Kryptowire, which BLU quickly remedied, Amazon has been aware of the Adups and ...
TheF8 developer conferencein May was supposed to mark the reveal of an Amazon Echo Show-like device with a “laptop-sized touchscreen.” Using its camera and facial recognition technology, the device, rumored to be called Portal, would associate people with theirFacebookaccounts,according to Ched...
The efforts extend into other areas of data privacy as well—chunky bracelets meant to jam Amazon Echo and other devices from listening to conversations, and phone pouches that block tracking signals. For years, social media sites have used facial recognition technology in tagging features. Popular...
The building is located under a major flightpath, about 3.5 miles from Southampton Airport. On the map below, Albion Towers is towards the bottom; the airport is at the top.According to the Southern Daily Echo, shocked tenants and community leaders have condemned the trespassing youths a...
surfaced that Amazon workers listen to and transcribe recordings. In response, the company said it only annotates an “extremely small number of interactions” in order to improve customer experience. Last year, Amazon’s Alexa Echo reportedly recorded and sharedOpens a New Window. a private conv...