Amazon staff said to listen in on Alexa audio
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In a response to the story, Amazon confirmed CNN Business that it hires people to listen to what customers say to Alexa. But Amazon said it takes “security and privacy of our customers’ personal information seriously.” The company said it only annotates an “extremely small number of interactions from a random set of customers.”
The Internet of Things is merely an extension of the Internet business model which is surveillance. IoT is just an extension of that surveillance into your home and your day to day life.