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Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Eavesdropping on housemates' gossip, recording details about insurance policies and a bizarre obsession with the family dog: MailOnline reveals just how much Alexa IS listening to day-to-day lives

[David Icke]:A Mail Online investigation into how much personal information Alexa is recording and storing on its users has revealed the smart assistant eavesdrops on housemates' gossip, private conversations about insurance policies - and even the family dog.

Amazon insists Alexa can only be activated when the allocated 'wake word' is uttered - being Alexa, Computer or Echo.

The tech giant - along with Apple's Siri and, until recently, Google's Assistant - says it saves every single interaction a person has with the device to improve the service - with some 'unintentional' snippets also being recorded if it mistakes another noise for a 'wake word'.

However, evidence seen by Mail Online shows this cannot be the case, or the process is fundamentally flawed, as a host of sounds and conversations were recorded without a clear or legitimate wake word being uttered - some when there was not even a human nearby...read more>>>...