{"id":26119,"date":"2017-06-07T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26119"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:28:45","slug":"use-v-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26119","title":{"rendered":"Use v Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/cary-man-says-alexa-disclosed-private-conversation\/16745480\/\">Would you<\/a> want a private conversation with your spouse recorded and sent to someone you know without your knowledge?<\/p>\n<p>A Cary man says it happened to him, and he's pointing the finger at his Amazon Echo and its Alexa voice-command system.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Signore reached out to 5 On Your Side after a recent story about the increase in so-called \"connected homes.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Our insurance agent called me and said, 'Hey, Rob, I think that Alexa was listening to something and sent me a message that, um, you probably didn't want me to hear,'\" Signore said.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm OK with some cutting-edge technology, but this really was a huge privacy violation,\" he said. \"It caught a humorous conversation, but it really could have picked up any conversation that we wouldn't want other people to hear. It just blew my mind that, without knowing that I asked to send it, nor did it verify that I wanted to send it, that it sent the message.\"<\/p>\n<p>The only way to disable Alexa's messaging feature is to call Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\"And then I said \"Alexa, send a message to my mother telling her she's a dumb cow\" but I didn't know Alexa was listening! Oh shit. I did it again.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you want a private conversation with your spouse recorded and sent to someone you know without your knowledge? A Cary man says it happened to him, and he's pointing the finger at his Amazon Echo and its Alexa voice-command system. Rob Signore reached out to 5 On Your Side after a recent story about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26120,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions\/26120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}