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You have to have an amazon account to use Alexa, so you've already established a relationship with Amazon that would include your name, email address, IP addres

You have to have an amazon account to use Alexa, so you've already established a relationship with Amazon that would include your name, email address, IP address(location).

dx87 8y ago
That doesn't matter, restricting information that employees can access is Security 101. I can't view restricted company information that I don't need for my job, likewise people transcribing Alexa voice commands don't need the home address of the voices they are transcribing. Just because you give Amazon your address for shipping and billing information doesn't mean you want to give John and Jane on the Alexa QA team your home address.
- milkytron 8y ago
  It is security 101, the sad part is how bad companies fail at this. I worked a company with over a trillion dollars in assets that had hundreds of “highly confidential” (their own words for classification) that were available to anyone on the network. I took all the appropriate courses of action to report, no action on their end. Reported it to the teams responsible and offered a solution, no action. I debated blowing a whistle and making an example, but I didn’t feel like I’d be safe. This post even makes me paranoid.
- rmc 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure credit card details aren't shared to all Amazon employees.
locations 8y ago
IP address is by no means an assurance of current, accurate physical location. In the sense that country and state or province might be close enough, it's certainly not accurate enough to nail down county, or zip code level accuracy with more than a coin flip's reliability. Some IP addresses are well known, and bound to physical locations like places of business, retail store fronts, starbucks wi-fi, but that's not really the purview of home assistants, when discussing the meat of these services and their intentions.

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You have to have an amazon account to use Alexa, so you've already established a relationship with Amazon that would include your name, email address, IP addres

by WillPostForFood 8y ago

You have to have an amazon account to use Alexa, so you've already established a relationship with Amazon that would include your name, email address, IP address(location).

dx87 8y ago
That doesn't matter, restricting information that employees can access is Security 101. I can't view restricted company information that I don't need for my job, likewise people transcribing Alexa voice commands don't need the home address of the voices they are transcribing. Just because you give Amazon your address for shipping and billing information doesn't mean you want to give John and Jane on the Alexa QA team your home address.
- milkytron 8y ago
  It is security 101, the sad part is how bad companies fail at this. I worked a company with over a trillion dollars in assets that had hundreds of “highly confidential” (their own words for classification) that were available to anyone on the network. I took all the appropriate courses of action to report, no action on their end. Reported it to the teams responsible and offered a solution, no action. I debated blowing a whistle and making an example, but I didn’t feel like I’d be safe. This post even makes me paranoid.
- rmc 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure credit card details aren't shared to all Amazon employees.
locations 8y ago
IP address is by no means an assurance of current, accurate physical location. In the sense that country and state or province might be close enough, it's certainly not accurate enough to nail down county, or zip code level accuracy with more than a coin flip's reliability. Some IP addresses are well known, and bound to physical locations like places of business, retail store fronts, starbucks wi-fi, but that's not really the purview of home assistants, when discussing the meat of these services and their intentions.