An Amazon customer asked for a data dump under the European data privacy law and instead got someone else’s data, including 1,700 audio recordings from this persons chats with his Alexa-powered Echo. The magazine analyzed the data and identified its owner Neil Schmidt (not his real name) who, along with his girlfriend, could be heard in the recordings. Amazon claimed to have discovered the error themselves and said one of their staff had made a one-time error, adding that the problem was also resolved with the two parties involved.”]