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Amazon Wants You to Use Alexa to Track Health Care

• snarf21 8y ago
  There is an unintended consequence with this push into reporting and tracking personal health information (PHI). Alexa et. al. do NOT personally identify (yet?) the person activating the device. If my wife asks Express Scripts for prescriptions and it says "Your Viagra will be delivered at 10:00 a.m.", what if she doesn't know I take it? What happens if your nosy neighbor activates it when you step out of the room to snoop in your digital medicine cabinet? In most things you can have security or convenience but not both.
  • dragonwriter 8y ago
    > Alexa et. al. do NOT personally identify (yet?) the person activating the device Alexa may not, but the “et al” (sidenote; only the “al.” not the “et” is an abbreviation) is perhaps overstated: Google Home, properly configured, uses voice matching with users registered with the device for personal information, and provides more generic access without a voice match.
  • akhilcacharya 8y ago
    It does on some devices, unless this isn’t what you’re referring to - https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16460120/amazon-echo-multi-user-voice-new-feature https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/11/16460120/...
• devoply 8y ago
  No thanks. The only issues that I have with moves like these is when they become Googlish and mandatory rather than optional. I use Alexa everyday. I like Alexa. I don't want to get rid of Alexa because it's prying, but I will.