Amazon's personal digital assistant, Alexa, has been credited twice in recent weeks with helping to solve or avert crimes – including a Gloucester case that received international attention when the device is said to have recorded the voice of a young boy who broke into an apartment.
As novel as these cases are, they raise unsettling questions about how much privacy we forfeit – willingly – to technology.
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