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Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/11/2019 12:33:38 AM
Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening. Sometimes, someone is. Amazon.com Inc. employs thousands of people around the world to help improve the Alexa digital assistant powering its line of Echo speakers. The team listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices. The recordings are transcribed, annotated and then fed back into the software as part of an effort
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Who wouldn´t want Amazon or Google or Facebook listening in on their private conversations? Nice touch stationing the eavesdroppers overseas, maybe sidestep a law here and there.