Privacy & surveillance concerns over voice-recognition devices, Google Home & Amazon Echo

Of Interest 2016-10-26

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Recently, when Google announced its own version of Amazon's voice-recognition digital home assistant, the company did not spend a moment addressing any privacy safeguards nor concerns.

As Wall Street Journal tech reporter Geoffrey Fowler tweeted: "So just to review, Google says it wants to install microphones all over your house. And didn't talk about privacy."

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http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/multimedia/privacy-surveillance-concerns-over-voice-recognition-devices-google-home-amazon-echo

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Center for Internet and Society

Date tagged:

10/26/2016, 19:29

Date published:

10/11/2016, 03:00