Anyone who opens YouTube can find countless videos of children reacting with glee and amusement when conversing with Alexa, the digital voice assistant that powers Amazon’s smart speaker products. That’s to be expected, given that Amazon quickly solidified an entrenched market leadership position in the smart speaker category, with its line of Echo devices and the like now a staple of many ordinary consumers’ homes.
But is there a privacy cost to that ubiquity? A pair of lawsuits seeking class-action status against Amazon would argue, emphatically, yes.
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Amazon is being sued over claims that Alexa ‘routinely records’ children originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 15:34:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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