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'Alexa, call my lawyer!' Are you legally liable if someone makes a purchase using your virtual assistant?

  • Written by Mark Giancaspro, Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide
'Alexa, call my lawyer!' Are you legally liable if someone makes a purchase using your virtual assistant?If you have voice shopping activated on your voice assistant, anyone in your home could potentially purchase items in your name. Shutterstock

When Amazon launched its Alexa virtual assistant in 2014, it probably didn’t think that a bird would expose a potentially significant legal issue with the device. But an African grey parrot named Rocco,...

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