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Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away
An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device.
- Date it happened
- 2017-11-09
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Amazon's Alexa is a virtual assistant technology that can recognize spoken commands and connect to user devices through Bluetooth to perform tasks.
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