Is Amazon’s Alexa listening and recording more than you realize?

The Current powered by Kim Komando

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4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Is Alexa spying on you? Your personal voice assistant might be a double agent. It works for you by answering questions and making life easier. She’s also working for Amazon collecting information. You can listen to everything Amazon has stored away and delete your past. You might have growing privacy concerns. In this free Komando on Demand podcast, you’ll hear how to listen to everything you have said to Alexa and how to the delete the recordings.

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0:00.0	This week, everyone's talking about a concerning Amazon Alexa, so-called glitch.
0:05.5	The smart assistant sent an Oregon family's private conversation to one of their contacts who lived in Seattle.
0:11.3	How did it happen?
0:12.7	What does it say for our privacy with smart assistants in the home?
0:16.2	Should we trust these always listening devices?
0:19.5	The Portland couple whose home was equipped with several
0:22.2	smart home devices got an urgent call from one of their contacts, telling them to unplug their Alexa
0:27.5	device immediately. Alexa had listened, recorded, and sent the family's conversation to that
0:32.9	contact. Of course, they were horrified and felt invaded. The response from Amazon? An apology. But no real explanation as to how it happened. A company engineer said that they assume a wrong command was given. How helpful. Of course, the smart assistant industry is exploding with more than 2.5 million Amazon Echoes sold so far this year.
0:57.5	Should we expect more of these mistakes?
1:00.1	Probably, and that's alarming.
1:02.7	So is Alexis spying?
1:04.8	And what can you do about it?
1:06.7	This Commando on Demand podcast was released a few months ago.
1:10.0	It's great advice for any person who uses an Amazon Echo.
1:13.6	Kim will share tips on how to listen to everything you have said to Alexa and how to delete the recordings.
1:20.3	Enjoy.
1:24.5	Oh my gosh.
1:26.2	We are in love with our digital assistance.
1:30.5	We just look at those cylinder cans.
1:36.1	Sitting on our kitchen counters, our living room and tables, maybe even in our bedroom.
1:41.5	Yeah, they're sleek, they're polished, they're shiny, they're new.
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