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WOMAN FINDS VAST TROVE OF VOICE RECORDINGS COLLECTED BY AMAZON’S ALEXA – AND YOU CAN HEAR YOURS

independent– A TikTok video showing a woman’s shock at how much voice data Amazon has collected on her has received millions of views and been liked hundreds of thousands of times.

“I requested all the data Amazon has on me and here’s what I found”, she said in a video. The woman has two Amazon Echo Dot speakers and another Echo device to control her smart home lightbulbs.

“When I downloaded the ZIP file these are all the folders it came with,” she said. The audio files reveal thousands of short voice clips, which she describes as “so scary”.