Report: Amazon hires employees to listen to customers through products
Did you know all you private conversations of subject to be listened to if you have an Amazon Echo? So "Alexca" does more that just answer your questions, she's recording your conversations. How is that not a major invasion of privacy?This is what Amazon says about its device: "Employees listen to Echo recordings, transcribe and annotate them and feed them back to the software so that Alexa can better grasp human speech."
Shouldn't they teach Alexa speech recognition in their own house? Where in the product description does it say that all your personal conversations will be recorded?
Amazon says that the records only start when Alexa has been called into wake up by her code word. Hmmm, even that is too much. And my Alexa has been called to service by sounds from the TV - she often answers when things that sound like her name are said. For instance a "Lexis" car commercial will almost always wake her up.
The situation is supposed to be under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Good luck with that, with all the money that Amazon has, what are the chances anything meaningful will be done to stop them?
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