'Mind your own business, Alexa!' How to keep secrets from your voice assistant

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Call centre workers who check how helpful our voice assistants are say they hear private conversations and couples having sex. Here’s how to avoid sharing your private life

Walls have ears; you never know who might be listening. Except, increasingly, you do. Call-centre workers for companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google are hired to check recordings made by voice assistants including Alexa and Siri for accuracy and helpfulness.

 

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Sit in a quiet room with lights dimmed and ask self: what has become of my life that I use a 'voice assistant' to do actions and acquire information on my behalf.

I can accomplish that, and save money, by not having one in my house.

1) not buying one.

amazon Don't get one.

Can't do much about GCHQ listening. 'In the UK … is the system of regulation where anything goes. They collect everything that might be interesting.'

Hottest must-have product of the 2020s will be the Home Scif.

Don't use them?

AI is evil

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