ALEXA TELLS FAMILY SECRETS
PORTLAND, May 25, 2018, Can your voice-controlled smart speaker be trusted? Maybe not as a recent family in Portland just discovered when their Alexa speaker not only recorded their private conversation but sent the recording to a friend on their contact list, KIRO-TV Seattle reported. But how could this have happened and how can it have prevented?
In every robotic device, there is a series of wake words which activate them. By saying Alexa, Echo, Amazon or Computer to a speaker you will turn on the device and if you were to accidentally say something that sounds like “send a message” you might be releasing information unbeknownst to you.
In the case of the family, Alexa sent the conversation to a series of cloud-computing servers. When Alexa asked if a particular person was the correct person to be sent, Alexa somehow heard yes and then sent the message. How can these false positives be prevented? According to the report, Forrester predicts by 2020 almost 50% of American households will contain a smart speaker as a voice-activated digital assistant. Amazon responded to the report by stating that it is evaluating options to make cases such as happened to the Portland family less likely.
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PORTLAND, May 25, 2018, Can your voice-controlled smart speaker be trusted? Maybe not as a recent family in Portland just discovered when their Alexa speaker not only recorded their private conversation but sent the recording to a friend on their contact list, KIRO-TV Seattle reported. But how could this have happened and how can it have prevented?
In every robotic device, there is a series of wake words which activate them. By saying Alexa, Echo, Amazon or Computer to a speaker you will turn on the device and if you were to accidentally say something that sounds like “send a message” you might be releasing information unbeknownst to you.
In the case of the family, Alexa sent the conversation to a series of cloud-computing servers. When Alexa asked if a particular person was the correct person to be sent, Alexa somehow heard yes and then sent the message. How can these false positives be prevented? According to the report, Forrester predicts by 2020 almost 50% of American households will contain a smart speaker as a voice-activated digital assistant. Amazon responded to the report by stating that it is evaluating options to make cases such as happened to the Portland family less likely.
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