Are digital home assistants safe?
@MashaVickina (2184)
Russian Federation
March 10, 2018 6:18am CST
Hello, everyone! I have just read that Amazon's digital home assistant Alexa has some issues.
For several weeks, some users have been noticing that it laughed with a creepy voice randomly, which sounded different from the programmed laugh. Although Amazon's staff claimed that the reason was that Alexa just picked up common sounds which sounded same like "Alexa, laugh," there are people who stated that it had begun laughing even in silent rooms!
I doubt that our modern technologies are 100% safe. Do you think that it is safe enough to have a digital home assistant? Or, maybe is it a fake news created by Amazon's contestants?
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@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
11 Mar 18
anything that can be hacked or used unknowingly to listen in on people doesn't sound very safe to me.
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@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
10 Mar 18
This is the second discussion I have read about this and I really couldn't care less as I don't have this device and I don't think I would be using one in my home.
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