Consumer protection: Increased data sovereignty for voice assistant users

While voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant may be a useful part of everyday life, they are coming under fire from data protection and consumer advocates. The virtual assistants are alleged to collect user data and transfer it to clouds, where it can be transcribed and analyzed by third parties. Now, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT are putting the issue under the microscope: In a living lab study involving 33 households, they are …

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