
Amazon Smart Thermostat
Amazon teamed up with Honeywell to create their smart thermostat. And you guessed it, Alexa controls almost everything once you pair it with another Alexa-controlled device in your home. There is no microphone or speaker built into the thermostat, so you'll need an Echo Dot or similar to use voice control. Once set up, Alexa takes over. It will adjust the temperature to suit your preferences. And it has Hunches! Yes, Hunches. Once you enable Thermostat Hunches, Alexa will have a hunch you're not home or a hunch you're asleep and adjust the thermostat accordingly. If Alexa has a hunch you're asleep and turns the thermostat down when you're really binge watching Netfilx for 8 hours, it's a good thing you can just say, "Hey Alexa, turn the heat back up!"
Co się może stać, jeśli coś pójdzie nie tak?
Amazon proudly states they are not in the business of selling your personal information to others, which is good. However, a good question to ask is, why would Amazon need to sell your data when they have their own advertising and retail juggernaut to use your data to sell you more stuff? Because Amazon is in the business of selling you more stuff. This means Amazon collects a whole lot of data on you — what temperature you like to keep your home, records of your shopping habits, Alexa search requests, the music you stream, the podcasts you listen to, when you turn your lights on and off, and on and on and on.
What's good with Alexa? They make it possible to automatically delete voice recordings immediately after they are processed. That's a nice feature after the controversy around human reviewers listening in to Alexa voice recordings. However, Amazon says when you delete your voice recordings, they still can keep data of the interactions those recordings triggered. So, if you buy a pregnancy test through Amazon Alexa, they won't forget you bought that pregnancy test just because you ask them to delete the voice recording of that purchase. That record of the purchase is data they have on you going forward and may use to target you with ads for more stuff. Same with your temperature requests or whether Alexa has a Hunch you're home or away.
And then there are Alexa Skills, those little apps you use to interact with Alexa. These Skills can be developed by just about anyone with the, uhm, skill. And with too many of the Skills, third-party privacy policies are misleading, incomplete or simply nonexistent, according to one recent study.When your data is processed by an Alexa Skill, deleting your voice recordings doesn’t delete the data the developer of that Skill collects on you. With over 100,000 Alexa Skills out there, many of them developed by third parties, now your data is floating around in places you might never have imagined.
While Amazon doesn't sell your personal information, they sure do use the heck out of it to target you with more stuff to buy. Is this creepy? Well, with so much data floating around in so many places (and we're talking a lot of places, both within Amazon and with third parties too), yeah, Amazon’s Smart Thermostat controlled by Alexa and her Hunches can feel pretty creepy.
Wskazówki, jak się chronić
- If you use Alexa, delete your historical voice recordings from time to time, by saying “delete what I just said"
Czy może mnie podsłuchiwać?
Aparat
Urządzenie: Nie
Aplikacja: Tak
Mikrofon
Urządzenie: Tak
Aplikacja: Tak
Śledzi położenie
Urządzenie: Tak
Aplikacja: Tak
Czego można użyć do rejestracji?
Tak
Telefon
Nie
Konto firmy trzeciej
Tak
Jakie dane zbiera ta firma?
Osobiste
Name, email, phone number, address
Związane z ciałem
Voice recordings
Społecznościowe
Jak ta firma wykorzystuje te dane?
Jak możesz kontrolować swoje dane?
Jaka jest znana historia tej firmy w zakresie ochrony danych użytkowników?
In August 2020, security researchers from Check Point pointed out a flaw in Amazon's Alexa smart home devices that could have allowed hackers access to personal information and conversation history. Amazon promptly fixed the bug.
In October 2020, Amazon fired an employee for leaking customer email addresses to an unnamed third party.
In October 2019, Forbes reported that Amazon employees were listening to Amazon Cloud Cam recording, to train its AI algorithm.
In April 2019, it was revealed that thousands of employees, many of whom are contract workers and some not even directly employed by Amazon, had access to both voice and text transcripts of Alexa interactions.
In 2018, Amazon's Echo Dot device recorded private conversation and sent it to random contact. The recording consisted of 1,700 audio files.
Czy ten produkt może być używany bez połączenia z siecią?
Przyjazne dla użytkownika informacje o prywatności?
In addition to general privacy notice, Amazon provides a privacy FAQ with answers to key questions about Alexa.
Odnośniki do informacji o prywatności
Czy ten produkt spełnia nasze minimalne standardy bezpieczeństwa?
Szyfrowanie
Silne hasło
Aktualizacje zabezpieczeń
Zajmuje się problemami z bezpieczeństwem
Zasady ochrony prywatności
Czy tej sztucznej inteligencji nie można ufać?
Jakie decyzje sztuczna inteligencja podejmuje o Tobie lub za Ciebie?
The Alexa AI runs the Amazon Smart Thermostat, and customers can enable "Hunches" so that the thermostat will go up, down, off, or on, based on when Alexa thinks what you need.
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