Amazon's
Alexa (or Echo) and Google Home are devices that many are putting
into their homes. These devices have a speaker, a microphone, and an
internet-connected AI system that responds to your voice commands.
The idea is to hook this hub into various parts of your home, using
it to play music, order pizza or Uber, help with recipes, check
weather or traffic, translate languages, control smarthome devices,
or even ask it random questions. However, these devices listen to all
the conversations in your home, and this information is archived.
Third-party organizations have access to this data and can use it to
better market their products to you. Amazon and Google insist that
their devices aren't constantly recording you—only after you
activate their “passive listening” with a command word such as
“Alexa.” If this provides any comfort about the device, it is
important to note that police in Arkansas subpoenaed someone's Alexa
records in connection with a homicide at his home. In this case,
Alexa was being used to provide evidence in a murder trial, but how
else might it be used?
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