An Amazon Echo user in Portland, Oregon, says she was shocked to learn her Echo had recorded a conversation with her husband without them knowing, then sent the audio file to one of his employees in Seattle. She said the incident happened two weeks ago when the employee called them to say she'd received a strange voice recording of them. "The person on the other line said, 'unplug your Alexa devices right now,'" she told KIRO. Danielle said they turned off their multiple Echo smart speakers, contacted Amazon and spoke to an Alexa engineer, who apologized multiple times. "Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like 'Alexa.'

Source: CNN May 24, 2018 23:37 UTC