When a German Amazon customer requested his archived data to review, he received a link to 1,700 Alexa audio files that belonged to a complete stranger. According to German magazine c*t, which was given access to the files by the German Amazon customer, Alexa also recorded general comments concerning day-to-day life and work as well as music and alarm commands and questions about the weather. The magazine used the audio to determine the identity of the man Alexa recorded and contacted him. An Amazon spokesman called the incident an “unfortunate case,” per Reuters. Amazon restricted access to the audio files, but by then, the German Amazon customer had already downloaded all of them.

Source: Huffington Post December 21, 2018 08:15 UTC