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Every day, the latest inventions make our lives easier and interactive. Whether owning a smart fridge, smart security systems or cool looking, decorative smart interactive assistants, all of them have one thing in common: to make life easier.
But they’re connected to the internet, too. The downside of these smart devices is they tend to store your voice and usage patterns on the cloud, which if you think about it, can be used against you one day.
When contemplating the sinister side of your devices, one smart device that hooks into the internet springs to mind: Amazon’s Echo – a smart interactive assistant named Alexa. Alexa, when asked if it has a connection with the CIA, chooses not to answer its owner in a video posted on Twitter.