digital assistants
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How Secure Is Your Digital Assistant?
Chatting with Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri has become a part of our day-to-day life, whether we’re using our voices to turn on smart lights or ask our devices for the weather forecast. But what you might not think about daily is just how secure and private these three voice assistants actually are.
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I Feel Like an Arsehole When I Ask Google Assistant to Tighten My Nike Laces
I have secretly coveted the self-lacing Nike Adapt sneakers ever since they were announced — blame it on Back to the Future. The only problem was the price. I am unfortunately stingy as hell. So when Google said it was adding a whole bunch of third-party app integrations to Google Assistant, and that one of…
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Unplug Your Smart Speakers While You’re Working From Home
Whether you just started working from home or have been for a few weeks now, it’s a good idea to turn off your smart speakers sooner rather than later; your Alexa or Google Home could be listening in on all those confidential work calls. Smart home devices not only listen to us when we don’t…
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Google Changing Privacy Protections For Assistant, Plans To Auto-Delete More Of Your Audio Data
In recent months, it became clear that Google, Apple and Amazon were all guilty of having humans review audio recordings collected by digital assistants. Now, Google’s trying to mitigate some of the backlash by updating and clarifying its policies on what it does with your audio data.