Echo Dot with Clock Privacy Report
While there haven’t been any issues with the Echo Dot with Clock specifically in terms of surveillance, some media outlets have reported that Amazon employees listen to Alexa recordings, and that’s true across all Echo devices. However, Amazon has several safeguards in place such as encryption, mandatory passwords, and two and multi-factor authentication, so the speaker is secure from hacking, just not inner-company surveillance.
Encryption
| In Transit | Yes |
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| At rest? | Yes |
| All network communications and capabilities? | Yes |
Security Updates
| Automatic, regular software/ firmware updates? | Yes |
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| Product available to use during updates? | Yes |
Passwords
| Mandatory password? | Yes |
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| Two-Factor authentication? | Yes |
| Multi-Factor authentication? | Yes |
Vulnerability Management
Point of contact for reporting vulnerabilities?Submit a report
| Bug bounty program? | Yes |
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Privacy Policy
| Link | https://www.alexa.com/help/privacy |
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| Specific to device? | No |
| Readable? | Yes |
| What data they log | Name, address, email, country, nickname, telephone number, website, company, job title, credit card information, IP address, URL clickstream, browser information, operating system, toolbar service, cookies, web pages visited |
| What data they don’t log | n/a |
| Can you delete your data? | Yes |
| Third-party sharing policies | Shares information with third parties. |
Surveillance
| Log camera device/ app footage | No |
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| Log microphone device/ app | Yes |
| Location tracking device/ app | No |
Parental Controls
| Are there parental controls? | No |
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Company History
| Any security breaches/ surveillance issues in past? | Not the Echo Dot specifically, but other Alexa products |
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| Did they do anything to fix it? | n/a |
Additional Security Features
| Anything like privacy shutters, privacy zones, etc.? | No |
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