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Title: Family Removes Alexa Devices After a Stranger in Another Town Heard Everything They Were Saying
Source: Free Thought Project/KIRO 7
URL Source: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/f ... tranger-town-heard-everything/
Published: May 24, 2018
Author: Rachel Blevins
Post Date: 2018-05-25 07:50:31 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 648
Comments: 5

Portland, Oregon – A concerned family is speaking out after they claim that their Amazon Alexa device recorded a conversation they were having in their home, and sent it to a random contact who alerted them to the fact that he had heard everything they said.

A homeowner named Danielle, who asked for her last name to remain anonymous, told KIRO 7 that she and her husband were in their house, discussing home improvement projects and hardwood floors when they received an urgent call from one of her husband’s employees in Seattle.

“We unplugged all of them and he proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files of recordings from inside our house,” she said. “At first, my husband was, like, ‘no you didn’t!’ And the (recipient of the message) said ‘You sat there talking about hardwood floors.’ And we said, ‘oh gosh, you really did hear us.'”

The employee sent the couple the email he had received with the audio files, and Danielle confirmed that it was, in fact, a direct recording of their conversation. She told KIRO 7 that the Amazon Alexa had access to every room in her house because it controlled the heating, lighting and security system in her home.

My husband and I would joke and say I’d bet these devices are listening to what we’re saying,” Danielle said, noting that they never imagined the smart device would record their private conversations and then make them public.

After unplugging all of the devices, Danielle said she called Amazon multiple times before she received a response. When an Alexa engineer finally looked into Danielle’s claims, she said he acknowledged that the device had recorded conversations inside her home and emailed them to a random contact, and he then apologized profusely. 

“They said ‘our engineers went through your logs, and they saw exactly what you told us, they saw exactly what you said happened, and we’re sorry.’ He apologized like 15 times in a matter of 30 minutes and he said we really appreciate you bringing this to our attention, this is something we need to fix!” Danielle said.

However, one of the most alarming factors in the ordeal was that the Alexa device made a recording and chose to send it to a contact on its own, without alerting the homeowners to what it was doing or asking for permission. Danielle said the engineer did not explain why it happened, or if it was happening to other Alexa users.

In response to a request for comment on the issue, Amazon claimed that it “takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future.”

Danielle is now seeking a full refund from Amazon on her Alexa devices, and she said that the incident left her feeling invaded and unsafe in her own home. “A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, ‘I’m never plugging that device in again because I can’t trust it,‘” she said.

While there have been multiple reports of homeowners who are concerned about just how much their smart home devices are listening to them throughout the day, this is a unique example in which individuals were able to prove that their conversation was monitored, recorded, and shared without their consent.

Last month, a cybersecurity firm discovered that the request for Alexa to repeat or ask another question can be muted, which could leave Alexa listening for a reply from the user for hours, and creating an indefinite audio log. While Amazon claimed to have repaired the problem, a report from Gear Brain noted:

Cybersecurity researchers created a way for Amazon Alexa devices to eavesdrop on their owners, listening indefinitely without their permission and sending transcripts of the recordings back to the researchers. The flaw in how Alexa works, which has since been patched by Amazon, saw the creation of a seemingly innocent calculator ‘skill’—the word for an Alexa app—with code which caused Alexa to keep listening after providing the requested answer. This covert recording was then transcribed and sent to the researchers as a text document.”

As The Free Thought Project has previously reported, while Amazon devices can be activated by a number of wake words, including, “Alexa,” “Amazon,” “Computer” and “Echo,” and users cannot turn off the required microphone, they can track what Alex has recorded and to delete it.

To track and delete recordings: Open the Alexa app, click on Settings, then click on History. You can then select and delete each entry.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0) (Edited)

I'm sure my laptop and android phone listen to my voice. I taped over the camera feature so it can't count my beers and cigs.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2018-05-25   7:59:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Deckard (#0)

Gee, isn't high tech great ??

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Stoner  posted on  2018-05-25   10:10:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Deckard (#0)

According to Amazon, apparently, Alexa interpreted bits of the ongoing conversation as a series of commands that caused it to record everything and mail it to an associate. The first errant command being the keyword to wake up. Alexa even asked for confirmation a couple times and believed it got it.

And none of it was intentionally directed at the device. The family wast just having a private conversation and had no idea Alexa was activated and didn't hear it's dialog as it asked for confirmation.

Call it a HAL 9000 experience.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-05-25   13:34:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Pinguinite (#3)

Call it a HAL 9000 experience

Or call it Big Brother slip experience.

A Pole  posted on  2018-05-25   14:54:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Deckard (#0)

In response to a request for comment on the issue, Amazon claimed that it “takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future.”

This sounds just like bs. Alexa was designed for recording. Those engineers who made this device knew this.

goldilucky  posted on  2018-05-25   15:14:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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