EU regulators to probe Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and other voice assistants

mood · Jul 16, 2020

EU regulators to probe Alexa, Siri and other voice assistants
July 16, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...siri-and-other-voice-assistants-idUSKCN24H1VP

EU competition regulators are seeking information from 400 companies to establish if there are problems in the market for voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri and other internet-connected devices that could lead to antitrust cases.

Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Alphabet’s Google Assistant are among the most popular voice assistant devices.

“It sends an important message to powerful operators in these market that we are watching them and that they need to do business in line with competition rules,” European Competition Commission Margrethe Vestager told a news conference.
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The EU executive said its interest was prompted by the large amounts of user data involved in consumer “internet of things” devices and it wanted to make sure market players did not use their control of such data to hurt competition or thwart rivals.
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