Former Amazon executive Robert Frederick revealed in a recent interview that despite using Alexa speakers at home, he typically shuts them down whenever he wants to have “a private moment.”
“I don’t want certain conversations to be heard by humans. Conversations that I know for a fact are not things that should be shared then I turn off those particular listening devices,” the told the BBC for a Panorama special called “Amazon: What they know about us.”
Smart speakers have previously come under fire for being used by parent companies to listen to user conversations at random times. Last year, for example, it was found that contractors hired by tech giants were listening to voice recordings collected via these companies’ smart speakers, all with the purpose of improving the digital assistants and refine the interaction with humans.
The audio snippets, however, contained various sensitive details, and further investigations into the data collected by smart speakers …
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