An Alexa user based in Germany has reported having received thousands of audio recordings made with Amazon’s digital assistant, which were accidentally sent to him from a stranger.
Smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo devices are built to listen to every conversation of people around as long as they’re not switched off. To some extent, this may raise certain privacy concerns among users, and rightfully so for an Alexa user residing in Germany.
According to German publication c’t, Amazon inadvertently sent some 1,700 audio recordings from that user to another individual who only asked Alexa to play back his own recordings.
