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‘Alexa, are you invading my privacy?’: Amazon Echo records, sends private convo to contact

Amazon has confirmed that an Alexa device recorded a couple's conversation and sent it to another Amazon Echo user who was in their contact list.

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The company says the combination of misinterpreted commands was extremely rare. Alexa "heard" her name or a word that sounded similar, turned on and then interpreted the conversation as a "send message" request. The voice assistant then asked, "[contact name], right?" and interpreted the rest of the conversation as a "yes."

On today's show, Pat wasn't sure if he bought Amazon's explanation of the chain of events that led to a private conversation being sent to a random contact.

"That's convoluted, but they don't want it to seem like that's happening on purpose, because that would doom the Echo system from everybody's home," Pat said.


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