Smart talking: are our devices threatening our privacy?

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The long read: Millions of us now have virtual assistants, in our homes and our pockets. But are these products keeping us under surveillance?

On 21 November 2015, James Bates had three friends over to watch the Arkansas Razorbacks play the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Bates, who lived in Bentonville, Arkansas, and his friends drank beer and did vodka shots as a tight football game unfolded. After the Razorbacks lost 51–50, one of the men went home; the others went out to Bates’s hot tub and continued to drink.

 

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My Alexa is in my bedroom, so it only overhears me snoring, farting and talking to stuffed toys. I hope the eavesdroppers enjoy listening to all of that 🤣

Yes but only if you let it. Some Apps on my phone keep on asking me to turn on the microphone. Sometimes in one of those confusing 'opt out' manners....

Privacy is over

Is this a story from 2018?

And some companies are promoting microchip implants. I am surprised people are voluntarily getting chipped.

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