Newly published research analysed more than 90,000 Amazon Alexa skills. What the researchers found was shocking to say the least.
A research team comprising experts from North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany recently undertook a study of Amazon Alexa skills. What they uncovered was shocking: misleading privacy policies, developers able to claim they were, well, anyone, and multiple skills sharing the same Alexa trigger words, to name just some of the issues.