PC Magazine - 09.2019

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AMAZON ALEXA

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mazon’s Alexa is intended to be a helpful digital home assistant: setting
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among other things.

Recently, however, Bloomberg reported that Amazon has thousands of
employees listening to Alexa voice recordings every day. And last year, a family
in Portland, Oregon had their conversation recorded by Alexa and sent to a
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on the agenda. But knowing Alexa might glitch and let everyone in on the inane
things you ask her is unnerving.

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