Amazon's Echo Blabs Out of Turn

Spying and snitching...

"I can't trust it," a woman says of her Amazon Echo device.

As secret recordings go, the Portland couple's conversation was pretty mundane: They were talking about hardwood floors, Laurel Wamsley reports on npr.org.

But their Amazon Echo was listening and recording their discussion.  The device then sent the recording to someone in their contacts -- without the couple's knowledge, Wamsley wrote.

For more about Echo's spying and snitching: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614470096/amazon-echo-recorded-and-sent-couples-conversation-all-without-their-knowledge

For a cbs.com report: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-alexa-echo-device-recorded-conversation-sent-to-contact/

For a quartz.com report: https://qz.com/1288743/amazon-alexa-echo-spying-on-users-raises-a-data-privacy-problem/

Photos: Giphy.

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