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Business Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow

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Technology Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass. Pre-order it for $40. Xeni Jardin

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amazon Amazon: 'Unlikely' string of events led to Echo recording a family's private chat & sending to some random guy Xeni Jardin

alexa Alexa listened to a couple's conversation and sent it to the husband's employee without permission Carla Sinclair

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maker Make your own Alexa-controlled toilet David Pescovitz