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This Is How Amazon’s Alexa Records and Shares Private Conversations Without Your Permission

(ZHE) — As it turns out, the scandal over Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled personal assistant recording and sharing private conversations both with hackers and with people on the users’ contact list is much more serious than the company had feared. As Bloomberg reported, Amazon responded to a KIRO 7 news report about a couple who received a call from a […]

“Unplug Your Alexa Devices Right Now… You’re Being Hacked”

(ZHE) —  “Unplug your Alexa devices right now…You’re being hacked.” That was the disturbing message that a Portland family received just weeks after installing the Amazon listening devices throughout their home. As KIRO7 reports, Danielle, who did not want us to use her last name, contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded […]

Amazon’s Alexa Is Suddenly Going Rogue and Nobody Knows Why

(ZHE) — While there are plenty of stories of artificial intelligence gone wrong, it seems many recent new owners of Amazon’s Alexa devices have been rudely woken by “bone-chillingly creepy” laughing from their AI friend. As The Daily Mail reports, some users say their Alexa-enabled gadgets start laughing totally unprompted. So Alexa decided to laugh randomly while I was […]