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NC State Researchers Warn of Privacy Problems Surrounding Amazon Alexa Third-Party Skills

NC State Researchers Warn of Privacy Problems Surrounding Amazon Alexa Third-Party Skills Third-party skills are Alexa s lifeblood, but poor privacy practices on Amazon s part could let malicious developers run riot. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have published a study highlighting a range of privacy concerns in Amazon s Alexa platform, concentrating on the use of third-party skills. When people use Alexa to play games or seek information, they often think they’re interacting only with Amazon, explains assistant professor Anupam Das of the problems highlighted in the study. But a lot of the applications they are interacting with were created by third parties, and we’ve identified several flaws in the current vetting process that could allow those third parties to gain access to users personal or private information.

Study Reveals Extent of Privacy Vulnerabilities with Amazon s Alexa

Date Time Study Reveals Extent of Privacy Vulnerabilities with Amazon’s Alexa A recent study outlines a range of privacy concerns related to the programs that users interact with when using Amazon’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa. Issues range from misleading privacy policies to the ability of third-parties to change the code of their programs after receiving Amazon approval. “When people use Alexa to play games or seek information, they often think they’re interacting only with Amazon,” says Anupam Das, co-author of the paper and an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University. “But a lot of the applications they are interacting with were created by third parties, and we’ve identified several flaws in the current vetting process that could allow those third parties to gain access to users’ personal or private information.”

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