What does your voice assistant learn about you?
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By simulating pretend folks whereas interacting with common sensible voice assistants, akin to Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri, researchers have uncovered the completely different approaches every system takes to studying customers’ private preferences and habits.
“I don’t know that customers have the instinct that once you’re speaking out loud, that additionally might probably be used to profile you after which goal you with advertisements,” says David Choffnes at Northeastern College in Massachusetts.
