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Amazon Sidewalk Shares Your Home WiFi with the Neighbors

Womble Bond Dickinson on 6/23/2021

We always suspected that the Amazon Echo resting quietly in your family room was more insidious than it seemed. Now we have confirmation. We know that the Echo can hear us. We also know that it records private conversations...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2020 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/28/2020

CYBERSECURITY - U.S. Organizations Doing Business in China Warned of Malware in Tax Software - The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint...more

Privacy Tip #249 – Use of Personal Assistants While Working from Home

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/28/2020

I continue to be quite surprised at the lack of understanding that people have about personal assistants such as Alexa and Echo. It seems logical to me that when you yell out “Alexa, turn on the lights!”...more

Alexa.......What is HIPAA?

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 4/5/2018

The increased use of technology by health care providers requires new and innovative platforms to provide better services to patients. One platform that has garnered attention since its introduction in mid-2014 is Amazon’s...more

In the Privacy of Your Home

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/10/2017

By now, it’s pretty common knowledge that Alexa has been on a dollhouse shopping spree, and is also helping to solve a murder. Clearly, Alexa cannot be trusted and that’s why she has only limited trigger words, including...more

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