Amazon reportedly gave employees access to location of Alexa users

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Thursday, April 25, 2019
Amazon's Alexa may know where you live
Some Amazon team members have access to Echo users' geographic coordinates which can easily be traced to their location. Bloomberg interviewed employees on the Alexa team who had signed non-disclosure agreements.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Alexa is not only listening, it apparently may know your address too.

Bloomberg news reports that some Amazon team members have access to users' geographic coordinates which can easily be translated into physical addresses.

Bloomberg interviewed employees who had signed non-disclosure agreements. They said they were concerned that Amazon was granting unnecessarily broad access to customer data.

The company responded saying access to location information is highly controlled and granted only to a limited number of employees. Amazon collects a user's coordinates in an effort to provide accurate information based on location.