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Family Freaked Out After Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ System Records A Conversation & Sends It To Someone Else In Another State

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Portland family got the shock of their lives when they found out that their Amazon Alexa system was recording conversations they had&excl; The mother of the family—who wishes to only be called Danielle—told &commat;Kiro7Seattle that she had wired every single room in their home to control the heat&comma; lights and security system&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; she is totally freaked out after finding out that the audio was somehow sent to someone in their contact list from Seattle&comma; Washington&excl; Two weeks ago&comma; Danielle got a call from the person saying&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Unplug your Alexa devices right now&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re being hacked&period;” Next&comma; Danielle unplugged every single piece of Alexa from their home&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We unplugged all of them and he proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files of recordings from inside our house&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Danielle said&period; &&num;8220&semi;At first&comma; my husband was&comma; like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;no you didn&&num;8217&semi;t&excl;&&num;8217&semi; And the &lpar;recipient of the message&rpar; said &&num;8216&semi;You sat there talking about hardwood floors&period;&&num;8217&semi; And we said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;oh gosh&comma; you really did hear us&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Danielle says that she and her family feel that their privacy has been invaded&period; &&num;8220&semi;A total privacy invasion&period; Immediately I said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m never plugging that device in again&comma; because I can&&num;8217&semi;t trust it&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The woman did contact Amazon&comma; but they still never told her why exactly this happened&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;They said &&num;8216&semi;our engineers went through your logs&comma; and they saw exactly what you told us&comma; they saw exactly what you said happened&comma; and we&&num;8217&semi;re sorry&period;&&num;8217&semi; He apologized like 15 times in a matter of 30 minutes and he said we really appreciate you bringing this to our attention&comma; this is something we need to fix&excl;&&num;8221&semi; Danielle said&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is so creepy&excl; Y’all can keep Alexa&comma; because she’s not getting into Wakanda&excl; &quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;‍&female;️&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;‍&male;️<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; Talia O&period; &commat;theclosetratchet on IG<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;people&period;com&sol;human-interest&sol;amazon-alexa-record-family-conversation-send&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;people&period;com&sol;human-interest&sol;amazon-alexa-record-family-conversation-send&sol;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; 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