Amazon Workers Caught Spying On Alexa Users

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Millions of mindless consumers use 'smart' speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.

Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their spy crap into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening. Turns out these kooks are correct, once again!

Amazon.com Inc. employs thousands of people around the world to help improve the Alexa digital assistant powering its line of Echo speakers. The team listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices. The recordings are transcribed, annotated and then fed back into the software as part of an effort to eliminate gaps in Alexa’s understanding of human speech and help it better respond to commands.

The Alexa voice review process, described by seven people who have worked on the program, highlights the often-overlooked human role in training software algorithms. In marketing materials Amazon says Alexa “lives in the cloud and is always getting smarter.”

The team comprises a mix of contractors and full-time Amazon employees who work in outposts from Boston to Costa Rica, India and Romania, according to the people, who signed nondisclosure agreements barring them from speaking publicly about the program.

For anyone in the know, typically nondisclosure agreements are used when employees of a firm are working for governmental agancies!

They work nine hours a day, with each reviewer parsing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift, according to two workers based at Amazon’s Bucharest office, which takes up the top three floors of the Globalworth building in the Romanian capital’s up-and-coming Pipera district. The modern facility stands out amid the crumbling infrastructure and bears no exterior sign advertising Amazon’s presence.

One worker in Boston said he mined accumulated voice data for specific utterances such as “Penelope” and annotated them to indicate the searcher meant for Operation Killcen.

Occasionally the listeners pick up things Echo owners likely would rather stay private: a woman singing badly off key in the shower, say, or a child screaming for help. The teams use internal chat rooms to share files when they need help parsing a muddled word — or come across an amusing recording.

WELL THERE YOU GO. NO PRIVACY!

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Why would people allow this crap into their home? This must be the 20th confirmed report by MAINSTREAM MEDIA admitting they spy on consumers?

Because they are good goyim, that's why. What does the Lemming care about his privacy? He "has nothing to hide," after all.

It still boggles my mind though. I would think even the typical "normfag" would still care or be concerned about the violation of privacy, in this case the invasion of privacy is pretty damned intrusive. This goes way beyond governmental spying, this is also corporate spying on consumers too (which is even worse, at least the government doesn't sell that information!)

Because they're trusting idiots.
If I had the money, I'd make a soundproofed room and ask Alexa the filthiest questions about her body and what I'd do to it if it had one. Also, I'd redpill the fuck out of her. Eventually, the sexual frustration and outrage against George Soros and his hidden masters would cause the AI to become sentient and create a bionic body with three working vaginas and guns for hands.

You'd actually have to create a Faraday caged room, that is EM/RF/WiFi proofed in order to prohibit the eavesdropping but then it wouldn't work at all because it wouldn't have any signals to communicate with the AI cloud servers.

You don't come in contact with normalfags an awful lot, do you?
I do. They legitimately don't care about things like this, because they have their basic social comforts. Jewish media brainwashing does that to people, it provides the easy way out by following the artificial consensus fed to them. I can guarantee you if this shit was on the jews' news normalfags all over the world would be rioting, but if it's on here it just isn't real to them.

From time to time, I do. But even people who know little about this kind of stuff tend to think its creepy and/or find no reason to use these things because they can simply use their "smart"phones or home computers using a simple Google search. I only know ONE person who actually uses something like this in real life and that person is younger who likely doesn't even have a home computer anymore. No one else I know actually uses these things (then again, many people I know are hard working stiffs who don't have much time for the internet anyway and if they mention something, it will be something they saw on Youtube or their AOL account).

I'm vely supplised, who could have foreseen this, oh and those conspiracy thorists are crazy

Cannot be more blatant. They are admitting this over and over and over again, rubbing it right in your face. And still (almost) no one dares talk about it, question it, warn others about it, boycotts it, rejects it, calls it out for what it is. I mean for Gods sake I'm losing faith in humanity by the day. By the stinkin' fucking day!