Echo smart speaker spies on another Echo user's home; Amazon blames "human error"

It's the big worry that smart speaker owners have; is the virtual assistant on their device listening in and spying on them? Recently an Echo user in Germany received a link from Alexa that gave him access to 1,700 audio files from a stranger's Echo smart speaker. Reuters noted that Amazon failed to respond to the consumer who received all of those audio files, and the links were deleted after the man loaded them on his home computer.

The customer who received the files had asked Alexa to play back his own recorded conversations when he received the links to the stranger's ...

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