Amazon Alexa records and shares woman's private conversation

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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05...s-and-shares-womans-private-conversation.html

The woman, named only as Danielle, received a phone call from one of her husband's employees in Seattle, who received a recording of the conversation. On KIRO's video, Danielle holds up a number of Echo Dots, claiming that "it was one of these that sent it."

"We unplugged all of them and he proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files of recordings from inside our house," she told KIRO news. "At first, my husband was, like, 'no you didn't!' And the (recipient of the message) said 'You sat there talking about hardwood floors.' And we said, 'oh gosh, you really did hear us.'"

She claims that after calling Amazon, an engineer on the Alexa team investigated and concurred that this indeed happened.

The part below is what's really funny...

"Amazon takes privacy very seriously," Amazon said in a statement to KIRO 7. "We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future."

Yet elsewhere.....

http://techhq.com/2018/05/bezos-under-fire-for-selling-facial-recognition-tech-to-law-enforcement/

A coalition of civil-rights groups have obtained proof that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is selling facial recognition technology to law-enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando.

(some text snipped)

“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government. Facial recognition in American communities threatens this freedom. In overpoliced communities of color, it could effectively eliminate it,” said the letter.

Amazon provides the technology it calls “Rekognition” and consulting services to implement the technology, to a variety of users in the market.

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"A coalition of civil-rights groups have obtained proof that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is selling facial recognition technology to law-enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando."
Yeah, that's been in the news so I doubt they had to do much work to get info...
 
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