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Boston Children's Hospital is pioneering the use of Amazon's Alexa voice assist technology in the healthcare sector. John Brownstein, the hospital's chief innovation officer, discusses the...
The Lives of Others: Siri, Google and Cortana edition Sneezes and homophones – words that sound like other words – are tripping smart speakers into allowing strangers to hear recordings of your...
Some last-minute wrapping of security-related tips from this week Roundup If you're reading this while on-call for IT support, network security, or what have you, then we salute you. If you're...
Executives may need to reconsider whether Amazon's Alexa personal assistant is listening to more than just their commands. Or perhaps the telephone conference attendee who pauses to gather details...
Just human error, internet giant shrugs after GDPR request went wrong. No sh!t, Sherlock A German man was very confused when he received, at his request, all the information that Amazon possessed on him.…
After one German user requested a copy of their Alexa voice history under the GDPR, he got another user's data in the process.
The intimate recordings paint a detailed picture of a man's life.
A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over any recordings an Echo device may have made around the time a horrific crime occurred.
Slowly but surely, the Internet is on its way to being 100% encrypted. According Scott Helme’s latest analysis of the one million most visited websites according to Alexa, 51.8% are actively...
After an Alexa speaker recorded and shared a private conversation, the tech community is casting a wary eye on voice assistant privacy issues.