A former Amazon Executive revealed he switches off his Alexa smart speaker whenever he wants a ‘private moment’ as he doesn’t want it listening in. Robert Frederick, a former manager at Amazon Web Services, told BBC Panorama he always turns it off during personal and particularly sensitive conversations. Last year Amazon was forced to admit […]
Former Amazon Executive Reveals He Switches OFF His Smart Speaker Whenever He Wants a ‘private moment’…
FBI Probes Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Group for ‘Hacking Americans and Government Agencies’ After Jeff Bezos and Facebook Both Accused the Company of Malicious Attacks…
The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments, according to four people familiar with the inquiry. Earlier this month, a security firm contracted by Jeff Bezos implicated NSO in hacking the Amazon CEO’s nude […]
Your Smart Vehicle is Recording Your Every Move…
Recent reports indicate that data gathered by automakers and tech companies could be the next front in the battle over digital privacy. In early January, companies at the CES 2020 displayed their plans for making use of the surprising amounts of data gathered by newer model vehicles. Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and Blackberry were among the […]
Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments…
Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She’d been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job: transcribing audio files for Amazon.com Inc. For $12 an hour, she and her fellow contractors, or “data associates,” listened to snippets of random conversations and jotted down every word on their laptops. Amazon […]
Amazon Is Planning to Open Cashierless Supermarkets Next Year…
Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to open Amazon Go supermarkets and pop-up stores, an expansion of the company’s cashierless ambitions that includes the possibility of licensing the technology to other retailers. The new store formats and licensing initiative could launch as soon as the first quarter of 2020, according to a person familiar with the project. […]
Amazon Agreement Allows Police to Keep and Share Ring Doorbell Footage Indefinitely…
Amazon has made an agreement with hundreds of law enforcement agencies to allow footage obtained through their home surveillance Ring doorbells to be stored and shared indefinitely with police, with or without legal cause. More than 600 police departments across the country are in an agreement with Ring to collect up to 12 hours of […]
Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans…
Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords to Hackers…
A new report from security researchers alleges that Amazon Ring doorbells have exposed users’ home Wi-Fi passwords to hackers. TechCrunch reports that security researchers at Bitdefender have claimed that Amazon Ring doorbells were sending users Wi-Fi passwords in cleartext as the doorbell joins the home network. This would allow hackers to intercept the Wi-Fi password […]
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