Amazon Alexa Recorded a Conversation and Sent It to a Contact Without Permission

  • 24 May 2018
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Sometimes I just think I am just "old fashioned" for not trusting these devices, and my now I feel vindicated.
 
24th May, 2018 By Lawrence Abrams
 


 
As much as people enjoy their virtual assistants, sometimes they do things that are downright creepy. Such is the case for a family in Portland who discovered that Amazon Alexa recorded a conversation without permission and sent it to a random person in their contact list.
 
According to KIRO 7, a family from Portland suddenly received a phone call from a person on their contact list telling them to "Unplug your Alexa devices right now, You're being hacked."
 
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See my Amazon.com unpopular review for the Echo Dot from back in 2016:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R3CQ8R2WPAT6CH?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl

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