Collaborate Disseminate
Researchers have found a thousand ways to say smart-speaker wakewords, highlighting the privacy problems. Again.
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Ex-Apple contractor doubles down on warning: Apple misusing audio recordings from the Siri voice assistant.
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Smart speakers have always posed a risk to privacy and security — that’s just the price we pay for getting instant answers to life’s urgent and not-so-urgent questions the moment they arise. But it seems that many owners of the 76 million or so smart speakers on the active install …read more
In the spring of 2018, a couple in Portland, OR reported to a local news station that their Amazon Echo had recorded a conversation without their knowledge, and then sent that recording to someone in their contacts list. As it turned out, the commands Alexa followed came were issued by …read more
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By Sudais Asif
A new type of attack called “SurfingAttack” can be used against voice assistant devices like Siri.
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Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated without ever physically touching the device. Continue reading Siri and Google Assistant hacked in new ultrasonic attack
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. Continue reading Smart speakers mistakenly eavesdrop up to 19 times a day
Google’s controversial voice Assistant is getting a series of new commands designed to work like privacy-centric ‘undo’ buttons. Continue reading Google voice Assistant gets new privacy ‘undo’ commands
As part of its partnership in the Connected Home over IP alliance, Apple said that it would open-source some of HomeKit.
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In a long-overdue move, Amazon, Apple, Google, and others are partnering on a standard for the smart home industry.
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