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Alexa’s Privacy Backtrack: Amazon Pushes All Voice Data to the Cloud
Amazon is stripping away a key privacy safeguard, forcing every Alexa request through its servers.
MembersFrom Bookstore to Big Brother: How Amazon Tracks Your Every Move and What To Do About It
With Amazon’s extensive data collection practices, understanding and limiting your data exposure is crucial for maintaining privacy.
Lawmakers Demand Amazon Censors Alexa After WaPo Complains Its Responses Referenced Rumble, Substack
Not happy that Alexa dared to highlight alternative viewpoints and independent creators.
FTC: Former Amazon Ring Employee Spied On Women With Cameras In Bathrooms and Bedrooms
The complaint says the company didn’t do enough to stop employees accessing user cameras.
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Headlines suggesting smart assistants are racially biased aren’t entirely accurate
In a bid to claim racial bias, the headlines failed to check the details of the study.
Amazon Alexa app shoots to the top of the App Store, suggesting it’s one of the most popular Christmas gifts
Thousands have let Alexa into their home this Christmas.
Bloomberg is roasted online after article image resembles an Amazon Alexa sex toy
The article got attention for all the wrong reasons.
Luxembourg’s privacy watchdog is quizzing Amazon over storing user recordings
The Commission hasn’t yet made the investigation formal.
Some Siri recordings are sent to Apple contractors who hear sensitive information
This follows reports of Google contractors being able to hear confidential details when reviewing Google Assistant and Google Home recordings.
Amazon and Google don’t like you calling their smart speakers “surveillance devices”
The companies are trying to battle the negative perception of their smart speakers.
Amazon admits it keeps your Alexa transcripts forever
Amazon only removes your data if you tell them to delete it. Even then, there are some things they won’t let you delete even if you ask.