Owners of the company's products should understand that, if you own any device equipped with Amazon's Alexa - or "NSAlexa" - digital assistant, the e-commerce giant likely has access to some of your most private, intimate moments.
Earlier this year, the company was exposed for allowing thousands of employees to listen in on the private conversations of Echo speaker owners. Amazon's Alexa digital assistant is no better than a spy monitoring and recording users' conversations and reporting back to a team of dedicated handlers tasked with "improving" the product.
Anybody who isn't already in the know should get used to the idea that Alexa is eavesdropping on you. Anybody who doesn't believe us should take a look at the cache of recordings stored on their Echo devices.
Now, Bloomberg reports that another Amazon device, the Amazon "Cloud Cam", has been storing recorded footage and sending it back to the mothership to be reviewed by a squad of employees hoping to improve the company's "AI" technology.
According to BBG, the goal is to help the 'Cloud Cam's differentiate between a 'real threat' - like a home invader - and a false alarm (already, that's a lot of responsibility for an algorithm to handle).
Dozens of Amazon workers based in India and Romania review select clips captured by Cloud Cam, according to five people who have worked on the program or have direct knowledge of it. Those video snippets are then used to train the AI algorithms to do a better job distinguishing between a real threat (a home invader) and a false alarm (the cat jumping on the sofa).
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Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
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