Recordings from yet another Amazon-owned smart home device are being reviewed by a team of human workers, again raising concerns that audio and video captured by such devices may not be as private as some customers might assume.
Citing sources familiar with the program, Bloomberg reported Thursday that “dozens” of workers for the e-commerce giant who are based in Romania and India are tasked with reviewing footage collected by Cloud Cams—Amazon’s app-controlled, Alexa-compatible indoor security devices—to help improve AI functionality and better determine potential threats. Bloomberg reported that at one point, these human workers were responsible for reviewing and annotating roughly 150 security snippets of up to 30 seconds in length each day that they worked.
Two sources who spoke with Bloomberg told the outlet that some clips depicted private imagery, such as what Bloomberg described as “rare instances of people having sex.” An Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo that reviewed clips are submitted either through employee trials or customer feedback submissions for improving the service.
h/t KP
And people thought that the Big Brother telescreens were fiction…..
Would you want to see liberals having sex?Ewww!..
And here I thought, to paraphrase a line from Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, they reproduced by binary fission, just like any other bacterium.
Alexa wouldn’t get within 100 miles of my home. And a WHAT? cloud cam? AYFKM!? Put a Globalist corporate spy cam in my bedroom!? Who would DO such an idiotic thing!? For what!? Why!? Security!? What kind of MOron thinks his home is safer, just because his murder is televised!? Whoopee! Your last moments on the planet were recorded and went viral on Twitter for 15min. Congrats! Your corpse got your Warhol 15min. smh.
I’m freaked out enough that my iPhone is listening to my every conversation … even when it’s switched off. Thank God my iPhone is broken at the moment …
My employer requires me to use a smart phone. So I leave it in the locker at work.
Check your TV. Some are equipped with cameras.
The smart TV is powered by a HiSilicon Honghu 818 processor and features a front-facing selfie camera that will pop up when needed to allow for video calls, snapping pictures and potentially even facial recognition.
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/honor-smart-screen
From some company called Huawei…and that is a good thing…apparently…at least it is advertised as a feature.
No “smart TV” in my house. I actually watch a stripped-down Pioneer Elite Kura Plasma Monitor that is a simple “Monitor” … no speakers. The sound is played through dedicated speakers run by my HT Receiver.
Link won’t work.
So, 150 clips of “up to 30 seconds” is an hour and 15 minutes. What do they do with the rest of their work day?