'Big red flag': Amazon Alexa reviewers can access customers' home addresses

Amazon says 'access to internal tools is highly controlled, granted to a limited number of employees'

Technology News:An Amazon.com Inc. group evaluating Alexa clients' directions approaches area information and can, now and again, effectively discover a client's place of residence, as indicated by five representatives acquainted with the program.
The group, spread crosswise over three mainlands, translates, explains and breaks down a segment of the voice chronicles got by Alexa. The program, whose presence Bloomberg uncovered not long ago, was set up to help Amazon's advanced voice partner show signs of improvement at comprehension and reacting to directions.
Colleagues with access to Alexa clients' geographic directions can without much of a stretch sort them into outsider mapping programming and discover home homes, as indicated by the representatives, who consented to nondisclosure arrangements banning them from talking openly about the program.Read More

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