HOW TO MAKE YOUR AMAZON ECHO AND GOOGLE HOME PRIVATE
IF YOU USE a smart speaker, you know all of the convencies and delights that make it more than just a glorified paper weight. But, admit it, you’ve probably given it some privacy side-eye from time to time. After all, it is a microphone that just sits in your house waiting for a wake word to start recording what you say. Here’s how to tighten the reins on what Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri can hear, when, and how it gets used.
That practice makes sense if you know that algorithms need to train on human-vetted examples to refine and improve their accuracy. But there’s no reason that Alexa users wouldknow that! And Amazon had not been forthcoming about its Alexa auditors. Apple and Google, who make popular smart speakers as well, aren’t shouting it from the rooftops either, but both companies had mentioned previously that they use human reviewers as well.
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