A Reuters reporter found Amazon saved over 90,000 recordings over a three-and-a-half-year period, which included extended conversations that were outside the scope of a reasonable Alexa query.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ · 2 years ago

A Reuters reporter found Amazon saved over 90,000 recordings over a three-and-a-half-year period, which included extended conversations that were outside the scope of a reasonable Alexa query.

@ganymede@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

shocked! shocked i tell you!

realcaseyrollins · 2 years ago

Where did they come from?? Like how did Amazon get them??

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ · 2 years ago

the article answers all your questions

realcaseyrollins · 2 years ago

Oh

This actually is nothing new

Your title made me think the Alexa might have been recording people randomly for no reason

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ · 2 years ago

Alexa is an actively listening system because it has to listen proactively in order to respond to commands. So, yes it does record people talking about things that have nothing to do with it, and then it sends this random data that has nothing to do with its function to Amazon servers where it’s stored indefinitely.

Jesse · 2 years ago

Did you read the article?

realcaseyrollins · 2 years ago

Just read it

A Reuters reporter found Amazon saved over 90,000 recordings over a three-and-a-half-year period, which included extended conversations that were outside the scope of a reasonable Alexa query.

A Reuters reporter found Amazon saved over 90,000 recordings over a three-and-a-half-year period, which included extended conversations that were outside the scope of a reasonable Alexa query.

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