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Amazon’s Alexa Reviewers Can Access Customers’ Home Addresses

Posted on April 24, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Matt Day, Giles Turner, and Natalia Drozdiak report:

An Amazon.com Inc. team auditing Alexa users’ commands has access to location data and can, in some cases, easily find a customer’s home address, according to five employees familiar with the program.

The team, spread across three continents, transcribes, annotates and analyzes a portion of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa. The program, whose existence Bloomberg revealed earlier this month, was set up to help Amazon’s digital voice assistant get better at understanding and responding to commands.

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