I’m not kicking our smart speaker out of the house just yet, but the consequences of having it in my family’s life are becoming clear.
Since last year I’ve had a smart speaker in my living room—an Echo Dot. My family uses it mostly to ask Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, to play music. But after I saw a report that an Alexa-enabled speaker owned by a family in Portland, Oregon, had recorded a conversation and sent it to a contact, I started wondering: what is it picking up on at my house when we’re not talking to it directly?
Continue reading… “Yes, Alexa is recording mundane details of your life, and it’s creepy as hell”
