Best Three Important Privacy Settings For Your Amazon Echo.
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With the inception of Amazon Echo, the dream of having robot secretaries has started to move into direction of becoming a reality. Amazon Echo is a digital voice assistant that has the ability to carry out a number of basic tasks without utmost precision and professionalism.
The popularity of Amazon Echo has increased with every passing year, despite a tough competition from Google. Amazon Echo is a dominating brand that has captured 75% of total virtual assistant devices’ market.
Regardless of the amazing features that Amazon Echo has in the offing, people seem to be skeptical about the device. Reason being, Alexa listens to everything that they have to say, so there is a huge possibility of the information getting hacked and getting into the hands of strangers.
Thieves could listen to the activities that people perform on a daily basis and make plans to rob the house accordingly. This is something that the company should pay attention to. You should take Amazon Echo help to beef up the security of your Amazon Echo. It is important for you to consider some security settings before you welcome Alexa into your life. Even if you don’t feel those settings to be important, yet you should know about these.
1. Turn off the mic of your Echo
Microphone is the most vulnerable part of Amazon Echo, as it absorbs all the sounds that it hears in the room, which also comprise of the private conversations that you do with your family.
In order to turn off the Echo’s mic, you need to press microphone off/on button, which is given on the top of the device. If the button is red in colour, then the mic’s off. To turn it on, press the button again. There is no need to perform a separate Amazon Echo Setup in order to enable this setting. Keeping technology in a close proximity is good, but not always because at times, it can put you in a sticky spot.
2. Turn off voice purchasing or confirm via a PIN code for purchasing anything
Asking Alexa to buy something seems to be a pretty convenient task, but that convenient can turn into a big mess all of a sudden. If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, then it is the step where you ask Alexa your bank details or password to make payments. This is not an appropriate thing because this is a classified information, which you shouldn’t be telling to anyone except your family members.
Alexa may be storing this information, which can get into the hands of anyone who could use it to his/her own benefits. You can log onto www Amazon com Echosetup to enable this setting. You should turn off Echo’s Voice Purchasing option while making payments or make certain arrangements where the payment is confirmed via an OTP or PIN code.
3. Check your ‘drop-in’ settings There is a new feature in Amazon Echo by the name of ‘Drop In’, which allows you to automatically connect your Echo to another Echo devices to start a conversation. A person using another Echo doesn’t have to pick the call because the line is automatically opened and the whole system works like an intercom system. This feature can also be activated in Echo Dot, but, you will have to perform Amazon Echo Dot setup in order to use this setting. If you are not able to access this feature, then you should take Amazon Echo support from a reliable help and support facility.