AMAZON SPYING YOU ? !

It's a Bloomberg survey that reveals it, and it's cold in the back. According to a survey by the US site Bloomberg , Amazon "pays thousands of people around the planet to help improve the way that the digital assistant Alexa responds to requests. "

The company created by Jeff Bezos would have developed this strategy to improve the understanding of human language by the Alexa software.

A veritable commercial success across the Atlantic, Amazon Echo connected speakers recently arrived in France. Equipped with Alexa, the voice assistant imagined by the company, connected objects interact with the user to answer simple questions or commands.

Private interactions, at least in theory. Bloomberg explains in his survey that some conversations between users and their assistant Alexa are directly sent to Costa Rica, India or Romania, where thousands of Amazon employees listen to up to nine hours a day.

Of course for Amazon, it is simply a matter of studying user requests to Alexa to "train the speech recognition and natural language comprehension systems" while ensuring compliance with the rules of ethics.

"We take the security and privacy of our customers very seriously. We use a very small sample of Alexa's records to improve the user experience, "said Amazon. However, the ecommerce giant does not specify that to carry this out, thousands of employees are responsible for annotating conversations to then improve the efficiency of the algorithms.

Allow us to doubt the sincerity of the company !! This information comes in anyway taint a little more image of the American giant Amazon.

Because, unlike Siri or Google Assistant, who ensure completely anonymize user records collected by their services, Amazon would allow its employees to access certain private information related to the user!

What the survey points out is that these employees, who work nine hours a day, inevitably fall on everyday scenes and private conversations. What the Bloomberg survey reveals is that recordings of certain conversations are sometimes ridiculed by employees

And even worse: according to Bloomberg, two Romanian employees reportedly witnessed a "sexual assault". They made it go back to Amazon, who did not want to interfere.......