Amazon Echo Recorded And Sent Couple's Conversation — All Without Their Knowledge
In what it called an "unlikely" string of events, Amazon says Alexa heard background conversation and misconstrued it as very specific directives.
by Laurel Wamsley
May 25, 2018
3 minutes
As secret recordings go, the Portland couple's conversation was pretty mundane: They were talking about hardwood floors.
But their Amazon Echo was listening and recording their discussion. The device then sent the recording to someone in their contacts — without the couple's knowledge.
The wife, identified only as Danielle, Seattle TV station KIRO 7 that they learned something was amiss when they received a phone call from the husband's employee who
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