A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.
"My husband and I would joke and say I'd bet these devices are listening to what we're saying," said Danielle, who did not want us to use her last name.
Every room in her family home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home's heat, lights and security system.
But Danielle said two weeks ago their love for Alexa changed with an alarming phone call. "The person on the other line said, 'unplug your Alexa devices right now,'" she said. "'You're being hacked.'"
That person was one of her husband's employees, calling from Seattle.
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7 comments:
Not surprised and why are we letting ourselves be so connected?
Anyone dumb enough to put one of those in their house deserves what they get.
Amazon admitted this happened, due to a very unlikely and coincidental string of events, in normal circumstances this would not happen. They offered to turn off the conversational features of the device if the customer wanted... what more can they do?
Why does someone need an Amazon device to control their heat, lights, etc? Are they that lazy?
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So you are a troll for Amazon that scans blogs looking for criticism of their products.
What more can they do? Quit spying on consumers!
Amazon has proven to be another giant overlord on this country that we don't want or need.
I never wanted one of these in my home and never will....
I think there is a joke in here somewhere. I don't need alexa to turn my lights on, I can operate the switch on the wall pretty good.
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