{"id":12740,"date":"2019-02-06T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2019-02-06T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:28:21","slug":"blogathon-06-19-alexa-stop-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12740","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 06\/19: Alexa, stop listening!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting little nobble that could trip up a person or several.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexa will allow people\/persons within hearing range to order\/buy things on the controlling Amazon account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have Alexa, and if you don&#8217;t want someone to be able to say &#8216;Alexa, buy me a Maserati&#8217;, you have to go in to the settings to switch this off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s simple to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to alexa.amazon.com or open the Alexa app on your mobile device:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click Settings in the left menu<br> Scroll down and select Voice Purchasing<br> Click the toggle beside Purchase by voice to disable the feature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now then, who wants to buy a Maserati?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting little nobble that could trip up a person or several. Alexa will allow people\/persons within hearing range to order\/buy things on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}