Cromwell — 6 years ago(April 13, 2019 08:24 PM)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/04/11/amazon-employees-listening-alexa-customers/3434732002/
Thousands of people across the globe are employed by Amazon.com to listen to Echo recordings, transcribe and annotate them and feed them back to the software so that Alexa can better grasp human speech, according to a report from Bloomberg. The employees – ranging from Boston to India – signed nondisclosure agreements barring them to speak publicly about the program. According to Bloomberg, they work nine hours per day, with each reviewer going through as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift.
The potential here is governments could work with Amazon, or companies that offer similar products, to listen into anyone's conversations for any purpose. There is no doubt they have interest in this, they have already worked with tech companies to spy on internet/phone activity with the PRISM program. If you have Alexa, you may want to turn it off.