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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] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not surprising. Most of Google's profiling is though the web. They don't bother with the speakers and stuff too much because they don't need to.

It's not very useful anyway, any number of people could be using the speaker, regardless of who is signed in

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

Yeah, but the nsa can listen to you through it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's not what this is about. That's a different story