U+D801 It's dismayingly easy to make an app that turns a smart-speaker into a password-stealing listening device and sneak it past the manufacturer's security checks Cory Doctorow
bugged by design New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording Cory Doctorow
internet association Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in Cory Doctorow
voice assistants Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow
listening devices Hackers find exploitable vulnerabilities in Amazon Echo, turn one into a listening device Cory Doctorow
echo Amazon: 'Unlikely' string of events led to Echo recording a family's private chat & sending to some random guy Xeni Jardin
spies amongst us Alexa listened to a couple's conversation and sent it to the husband's employee without permission Carla Sinclair
