People Who Buy Smart Speakers Have Given Up on Privacy, Researchers Find

guest · Nov 27, 2018

People Who Buy Smart Speakers Have Given Up on Privacy, Researchers Find
November 26, 2018
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...ers-have-given-up-on-privacy-researchers-find

If you find always-listening smart devices creepy, but bought an Amazon Echo anyway, you’re not alone. A recent study from researchers at the University of Michigan found that people who own smart speakers are aware of the risks, but feel resigned to the idea that the erosion of privacy is now a fact of life.

Schaub and his team found that speaker owners weren’t bothering to take steps to protect their privacy. Many devices have a mute button that allows the user to turn off the microphone, for example, but the researchers found most users had never used it.
[...] Instead of using this feature to protect personal privacy, the researchers found users were actually using it to spy on housesitters and babysitters.

Schaub said he found the results of the study concerning, particularly the fact that many users seemed apathetic to the idea of companies getting more information about their private lives—if we’re fine with the constant erosion of our privacy, it might no longer exist one day.
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Stefan Froberg · Nov 27, 2018

That's what happens when too much pro-surveillance "I have nothing to hide" b**** is spread.

Like lab rats the people will be conditioned.

Except of course, people who have the skills to avoid (most of) it and people who remember what kind of surveillance hell the old DDR and old Soviet were. Even if minority, they still keep on fighting.

Minimalist · Feb 20, 2019

Your smart speaker wants to know everything – and that’s a turn-off for some

Both Amazon and Google are pushing manufacturers of smart gadgets to give them a continuous stream of information about what these devices are doing – whether or not the user actually used their smart speakers to turn the device on or off.

That’s a huge increase in the amount of detailed information these two tech giants want to collect about you, your activities, and your preferences. Previously, the companies would only collect information every time the smart speaker was used to, for example, turn on a light or unlock a door. With the new changes, they are pushing manufacturers to send them a nonstop stream of data about these devices’ status – even when the smart speaker is not being used.
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https://blog.avira.com/your-smart-speaker-wants-to-know-everything/

guest · Sep 6, 2019

Users Worry About Smart Speaker Privacy, But Keep on Buying Them
September 5, 2019
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...out-smart-speaker-privacy-keep-on-buying-them

Consumers are worried machines by Amazon and Google are eavesdropping on them at home, but that’s not stopping purchases.

Despite increasing concerns about “passive listening” and privacy risks, more people are buying smart speakers like Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo and the Google Home, according to a Capgemini Research Institute report released Thursday.
Almost half of the survey’s 12,000 respondents who live in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany have a voice-activated device, up from 25% who reported owning one in November 2017. However, 52% were worried their voice assistants were listening to their private conversations.
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Capgemini: Smart Talk: How organizations and consumers are embracing voice and chat assistants

Peter2150 · Sep 6, 2019

They are suckers who have been sold a bill of goods. Also they are just lazy.

Compu KTed · Sep 6, 2019

Recent 2019 study showed that even those who said they were “very concerned” about
the privacy risks posed by smart speakers were only 16 percent less likely to own
one than the general public.
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U.S. Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2019
(collaboration by Voicebot and Voicify)

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