Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated without ever physically touching the device.
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Smart speakers mistakenly eavesdrop up to 19 times a day
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.
Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.
Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.
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.
Your Skype Translator calls may be heard by humans
A Skype Translator insider claims it’s good because humans are listening in and helping to train its artificial intelligence.
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.
Hey, Google, why are your contractors listening to me?
Humans are listening to our recordings – some made by mistake – to improve speech recognition. But they’re not as anonymous as Google says.
Booking a restaurant? Let Google’s Duplex AI make the call for you
Bon appétit, Dave. Google’s table-booking Duplex AI needs to pass the creepy test.
Sorry, we didn’t mean to keep that secret microphone a secret, says Google
It’s been off by default, Google says – not much consolation to those who don’t cotton to the notion of a “secret” listening gadget.