PrivacyMedium
Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact
- Occurred
- May 11, 2018
- Published
- May 24, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Amazon Echo misinterpreted a background conversation between a husband and wife as instructions for recording a message and sending it to one of the husband's employees.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
- Amazon Echo users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Device recorded and transmitted private conversation without consent, constituting a privacy breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8