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apparently they give the ability to access your communication with Alexa with a phone app. So they put themselves in a box by having features in an app that pre
by Shivetya 10y ago
apparently they give the ability to access your communication with Alexa with a phone app. So they put themselves in a box by having features in an app that prevent anonymization of the data. Going forward they may have to drop the app or limit its functionality.
I don't have the app in question and am only extrapolating based on the text in the article. Does anyone here have the Alexa app? What are its features?
So is law enforcement going to try to go with voluntarily allowing recording of oneself allows them access? Push a claim that Amazon has no standing in the case and cannot object?
- fmorel 10y agoWhen it's triggered, Amazon stores recordings of every command. You can then play that back, and tell Amazon whether it heard you correctly. I've used this several times to figure out items on my shopping list where it misheard me.
- milesdyson_phd 10y agoI have the app, it allows you to play back any prompt that Alexa was triggered with. For instance the maintenance people at my apartment complex decided to play with it and I can listen to them ask stupid stuff like: "how many apples are in a bushel"
- lawless123 10y agoWell how many are there?
- CapitalistCartr 10y ago~120.
- imgabe 10y agoCouldn't they encrypt the recordings so that a user could access it but the encrypted data couldn't be read server-side?
- kevincox 10y agoEncrypt it with what? The echo? But then how can you listen on your phone? They would need to compromise the UX or store the key themselves, which defeats the whole purpose.