Amazon May Share Your Alexa Conversations With Developers

‘Watch what you say to your Amazon Echo. Amazon may give developers transcripts of your conversations with your Amazon Alexa personal assistant so they can build smarter, more responsive software, according to a new report.
Alexa is the smart assistant software running on Amazon Echo and a few other devices, which can take pizza orders, summon a ride service, or check the weather via voice requests.
Such information sharing would be useful for developers who want to provide more valuable services to customers who want more accurate responses. But such data sharing may also creep out others who already worry about the privacy of their interactions with smart home devices and how that data is used by their technology providers.
Amazon (AMZN, +0.32%) already shares conversation transcripts with select “white listed” developers, an unnamed source told tech news site The Information, which broke the story. Google also reportedly shares chat information from Google Home with developers, according to the Information.’
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