{"id":9791,"date":"2019-05-07T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2019-05-15T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T04:51:42","slug":"bad-alexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/07\/bad-alexa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Alexa!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/business\/article\/Alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-on-you-this-whole-13822095.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from ctpost (opens in a new tab)\">from ctpost<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Geoffrey A. Fowler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWeo9ldlaTU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, &#8220;Are you crazy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet that&#8217;s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it&#8217;s hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley&#8217;s next frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Many smart-speaker owners don&#8217;t realize it, but Amazon keeps a copy of everything Alexa records after it hears its name. Apple&#8217;s Siri, and until recently Google&#8217;s Assistant, by default also keep recordings to help train their artificial intelligences.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/business\/article\/Alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-on-you-this-whole-13822095.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click to continue reading at ctpost.com<\/a> ]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from ctpost Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time by Geoffrey A. Fowler Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, &#8220;Are you crazy?&#8221; Yet that&#8217;s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}