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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by LinuxBender on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:47PM (#18728442)
Audits of controls are about ensuring the longevity of the business. They are entirely orthogonal to ethics or business models.

And yes, I am proudly paranoid. History and experience have confirmed the need for my paranoia for many decades.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by jedberg on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:56PM (#18729044)
> Audits of controls are about ensuring the longevity of the business.

You must not have suffered a SOX audit before. Part of the audit is technical.

Also, the SEC greatly frowns upon lying about your business.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by LinuxBender on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:17PM (#18729203)
I have suffered every kind of audit, many times. I know of many technical facets of every business I worked for that would never have been a part of any of those audits.

Do you know of any published Amazon audits that describe in detail what specifically around Alexa is audited, if anything?

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