For years now, security experts have warned of privacy risks associated with using Amazon’s and Google’s AI-based, virtual assistants carelessly. Alexa- and Google Assistant-powered devices have been known, for example, to share our conversations with random people from our address books. They can disarm alarms for criminals or be hacked with lasers by neighbors. Indeed, with their new, deep learning algorithms, virtual assistants have been caught secretly recording key stroke sounds and piecing together conversations.
All of this is bad enough for one’s personal privacy. But in an era of remote working, the concerns about these devices jump up a notch.
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