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Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. (news.northeastern.edu)

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The three biggest players in voice assistants –– Google, Apple and Amazon –– have radically different approaches to profiling users, Northeastern University researchers say.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These devices are almost always listening, and the companies behind them are already collecting our data.

Uh oh! Clicks scary link

The good news is, they aren’t recording all the time ... and when they are activated accidentally, the recordings are typically short.

:/ alrightythen

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So what it's saying is that it doesn't need 24/7 recordings to profile us in a way that's profitable for them because we are some basic bitches, right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Just pointing out clickbait. They don't even accurately reference their own articles. I stopped reading after that.