I'm filing this under the heading of 'marketing' for the universities involved. It's a way for them to show that they're at the 'leading edge', whatever that is. Here's the story: "The Georgia Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Arizona State University last year provided students with Echo Dots, puck-shaped, voice-activated devices programmed to answer campus-specific questions about meal plans and business hours for campus buildings." Behind the story is a company called "n-Powered, a Boston-based start-up, can relay individual students' data, including financial aid and grades." There is, of course, no chance that any of this information leakage would ever be abused.
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