Hannah Fry is a mathematician with expertise in the algorithms tech companies use. She is also a privacy expert, and has warned against allowing Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa into the bedroom.
While Amazon previously denied that its Echo devices were used to spy on people, earlier this year they admitted that their employees listen to customer voice recordings in order to improve speech recognition.
It was also revealed that recordings of personal moments were inadvertently caught up after the smart speaker was triggered by words that sounded similar to "Alexa".
After requesting audio data from Amazon that had been recorded by her Echo speaker, Dr Fry discovered it had picked up conversations that were never directed at the voice assistant.
With an estimated two million UK households owning Alexa devices, the associate professor warned people to be careful how they use them.
Dr. Fry believes that there should be spaces in our homes that should remain completely private, such as the bathroom and the bedroom.
Scary!
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But I WANT them to hear me. I don't care if they're fapping or squicking as long as they're listening. I want them to hear my wife scream. I want them to hear me roar. I want them to hear the cries of pleasure and pain. I love being an auditory exhibitionist, simply because I don't break any laws, and if we discuss something private it's almost always in the car. If someone wants to jerk off while I'm railing my wife they're more than welcome to.
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