Alexa has dominated the smart speaker market with more than 100 million devices that have already been sold.
There are thousands of employees who are listening to voice recording data that gets captured by the smart devices in millions of homes. Why are they listening to the recordings? Because they are paid to transcribe that information and annotate them, the information then gets fed back to Amazon's software with the ultimate goal of using all of that data that gets collected to help improve human speech comprehension.
These are Amazon employees coming from different areas that might be listening to the recordings, many are contractors, but there are also full-time employees who are listening as well.
It's likely that there will be occasions when the device is going to record something, with the potential to be shared, that the speaker would probably prefer to be kept private. If they have difficulty with a particular recording that they might be trying to categorize, it's alleged that the team reviewing the recordings uses an internal chat room to communicate with each other and share files etc.
It's alleged that they have heard recordings that they themselves have found to be upsetting or potentially criminal.
Privacy issues have been a top concern surrounding these smart speaker devices since they came to market.
In one instance, a user had their private communications unintentionally recorded and then sent to a random individual on their contact lists without their permission.
Still, there might be a few owners of these devices out there who aren't aware that Amazon contractors will be listening to their intimate conversations that they might not have intended to record.
It was ”my discovery” for a @steemhunt post some months ago. :)
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@steemhunt is pretty awesome, do you have one yourself? the alexa?
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Nah...unfortunately I don’t:(
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The question is not about who's listening to "what you tell Alexa"...... The REAL question, is what does Alexa actually record, and what's done with that data?
I'm automatically inclined to believe that it records everything, or, has an algorithm for certain "secret" keywords which trigger recording. It's bad enough that we're chipped with smartphones recording our every move, but to invite Big Brother directly into your home with one of these devices is just absolutely fucking insane.
And the "security" options and other settings to opt out of data sharing? LMAO...
This technology will be (and is already being) used in all the wrong ways and will eventually be the demise of the tiny remaining thread of personal freedom and privacy that we have in this day and age.
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they say it is always listening but not always recording ..whether or not that's to be believed? 😃👍👍
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Of course they say that.. Consumers are claiming otherwise, just google it. Naturally, every time someone makes a complaint, Amazon assures them that "This is a very rare occurrence and we're investigating a fix." Utter bullshit.
The devices are good for one thing only, data-mining and categorization of society. Insight into how that info will be used can be easily understood by reading Orwell's 1984, or from the films "Terminator" and "Minority Report". It's just another layer of monitoring. Between smartphones, computers, GPS systems in our cars, credit/debit cards, there is enough data available to reasonably predict what the average person will do before that individual actually knows what their plans are. Why not ad a recording device into your home which is owned by the largest online shopping/search/data companies on earth, and who are all known for working directly with (and/or receiving funding from) the government?
I'm disappointed that I even have a Smartphone but they're practically impossible to be without nowadays. Every time I think about it, it pisses me off. I'd rather be on a quiet beach with a room full of printed books and no internet connection.
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I will not buy one because I can do my research myself. :)
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It would be great if the market was not dominated only by Google, Amazon and super tech giants
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what about turning your music on for yourself? wouldn't you like to get someone to do that for you? 👍😄
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Maybe I need to buy a robot and become fat and lazy! ;)
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I have one. I can clearly see how it could be used by various parties. I would say if you are worried about privacy, think twice before you get one. My life is pretty boring so I dont much care lol.
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convenience has a price 😎
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