That smart home speaker isn’t listening to everything you say, according to new research – but it is listening a lot more than it should.
Tag Archives: Alexa
Google voice Assistant gets new privacy ‘undo’ commands
Google’s controversial voice Assistant is getting a series of new commands designed to work like privacy-centric ‘undo’ buttons.
Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers
Researchers have discovered that some voice assistants will accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light.
Police interrogate Alexa for clues in fatal spear-stabbing
A friend heard a couple arguing but couldn’t make out what it was about. Police hope that Alexa might have a better idea.
Alexa and Google Home phishing apps demonstrated by researchers
The researchers’ “Smart Spies” apps showed how Amazon Alexa and Google Home users could be exposed to vishing and eavesdropping.
Google chief warns visitors about smart speakers in his home
Rick Osterloh says he discloses smart speaker use when someone enters his home, and the products should probably do so themselves.
Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy
Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it.
Scammers use bogus search results to fool voice assistants
The Better Business Bureau reports that scammers have worked out how to game search results for company customer support telephone numbers.
Google and Apple suspend contractor access to voice recordings
This week, Apple and Google announced that they will limit the way audio recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are accessed internally by contractors. Let’s start with Apple. Apple’s privacy hump began a week ago when The Guardian ran a story revealing that contractors “regularly hear” all sorts of things Apple customers […]
Listening in: Humans hear the private info Siri accidentally records
Apple Watch and HomePod have the highest rate of inadvertent recordings, a whistleblower says.