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8:10 p.m.
Saturday, August 03
CAIRO (AFP)
Amazon.com, the e-commerce giant, has decided to allow users of the Alexa personal digital camera to disable human auditing of their voice recordings, which has led to a wave of harsh criticism of the privacy breach of users by the program.
The new policy, which the company begins to apply today, allows customers, via an option of the settings menu of the application Alexa Smartphone, to remove their records from the unit badyzed by employees from Amazon and the contractors. .
This came as a result of similar actions taken by Apple and Google.
In April, Bloomberg revealed the Amazon contract with a team of thousands of employees worldwide, charged with listening to voice requests sent to the PDA by Alexa to improve the quality of the program. Their tasks consisted of listening to audio recordings and converting them into written texts. Some staff members who reviewed client records were able to access certain personal information such as the first name and the location of the user.
At that time, Amazon and people familiar with the program stated that only a small sample of records had been manually reviewed.
Bloomberg said that a similar human badysis had been conducted using Google's PDA application, developed by Alfabet and Apple's badistant Siri.
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