Earlier this week, it was reported that Apple’s contractors all over the world are regularly sent Siri recordings containing private information about users, including their sex-related matters.
Amazon staff listened to recordings made of British users’ private lives gathered by Alexa-enabled virtual assistant speakers, including those related to “family rows, money and couples having sex”; the alleged goal was to monitor and improve the Alexa system, the Sun reports, referring to its own investigation.
The newspaper cited an unnamed former analyst in the Bucharest-based Amazon team as claiming that even though the staff were told to concentrate on Alexa commands, it was “impossible not to hear other things going on”.
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