Amazon Locked Man Out of Smart Home Devices for a Week After False Racism Accusation

Amazon Locked Man Out of Smart Home Devices for a Week After False Racism Accusation
Amazon's Echo Spot device powered by its Alexa digital assistant at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 11, 2019. Robert Lever/AFP via Getty Images
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A Maryland man was recently locked out of his Amazon smart home system after a delivery driver reported hearing a racial slur while dropping off a package.

In a June 4 blog post on Medium, Brandon Jackson described his week-long ordeal of being locked out of the Amazon account he used to control many of the devices around his home.
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