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Alexa

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 5564 Report
Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

2018-05-10

Amazon's retention of children' voice recordings indefinitely as the default setting reportedly to train Alexa's voice recognition for Alexa-enabled devices was charged by the FTC and DOJ to violate COPPA Rule.

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Incident 3611 Report
Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

2018-05-11

Amazon Echo misinterpreted a background conversation between a husband and wife as instructions for recording a message and sending it to one of the husband's employees.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Amazon

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 556
    4 Reports

    Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 556
    4 Reports

    Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 556
    4 Reports

    Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Amazon Echo users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Voice assistant systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Speech recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Amazon Echo

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 361
    1 Report

    Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact

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Entity

Alexa children users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 556
    4 Reports

    Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

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Minors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 556
    4 Reports

    Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

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Entity

Alexa users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 556
    4 Reports

    Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings

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