No it doesn’t. If I give you my phone or you are reading my screen over my shoulder my apps aren’t leaking.
This title is inflammatory.
This title is inflammatory.
1 - That Alexa has access to information about any particular Amazon user? To me the registration process and features of the product make this extremely obvious, but maybe its not?
2 - That Alexa will send audio notifications related to the status of the account its linked to? This is the only thing that I feel is of any possible surprise. Most of the marketing around Alexa products show interactions initiated by the user.
3 - That 'private wish lists' aren't excluded from the full set of notifications? Amazon just calls them 'wish lists' and to me they are just cached shopping carts. I don't really see them as any more sensitive than any other information in the account.
If nothing else, giving the option to disable this on private lists would be nice.
Unless you explicitly share something, all of the information is protected equally except for credit card numbers and your password.
Like I mentioned above, if the author had a gift in their shopping cart or ‘save for later’ and Alexa notified on a price change, would they have a similar reaction?
It’s not a moot point now but either this is just a serendipitous occasion or somebody Amazon really listens, but I just opened up the app, went to manage lists, and there’s literally an option now to manage the list through Alexa or not.
These are different in that the person involved did not explicitly set them as private. They might feel annoyed, but would realize they made the mistake.