Alexa needs to be banned from the bedroom, privacy expert says

A prominent privacy expert has warned against allowing Amazon's voice assistant Alexa into the bedroom. Hannah Fry, a mathematician with expertise in the algorithms tech companies use, said she did not use the smart speaker in upstairs rooms of her house due to revelations that it was eavesdropping on private conversations. Amazon previously denied that its Echo devices were used to spy on people but earlier this year admitted that employees listen to customer voice recordings in order to improve speech recognition. It was also revealed that recordings of personal moments were inadvertently caught up after the smart speaker was triggered by words that sounded similar to "Alexa". After requesting audio data from Amazon that had been recorded by her Echo speaker, Dr Fry discovered it had picked up conversations that were never directed at the voice assistant.