Friday, September 4, 2020

Be careful when utilizing voice recognition devices; the recordings made of your conversations may be used against you

I came across this great article in Wired:

https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/ 

I quote:

"Earlier this month, Amazon said it had received more than 3,000 requests from police for user data in the first half of this year, and complied almost 2,000 times. That was a 72 percent increase in requests from the same period in 2016, when Amazon first disclosed the data, and a 24 percent jump in the past year alone."

Voice recognition devices may be a portent of a major incurrsion on privacy rights.