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Alexa Eavesdropping Flub Re-Sparks Voice Assistant Privacy Debate

A Portland family s Echo device recorded and shared a private conversation of its unknowing owners. Amazon has confirmed the error and offered an explanation of what happened in an emailed statement to Threatpost: “Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like Alexa Then

Source: Alexa then interpreted background conversation as right . The family said that they disconnected everything after the incident.”

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