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Over the past five years, Amazon and Google have dominated the world of smart speakers, offering equipment of all sizes and capacities for personal and business use. However, over time, concerns about unwanted recordings have increased among all types of users, and politicians They started to get worried.
According to documents obtained by the Business Post, the Information Technology Police Oireakhtas (The Irish Parliament) has advised its members not to have conversations near Amazon Alexa or Google Home devices for fear that the teams might record what is mentioned in them.
A recommendation issued in December 2021 states that “Avoid confidential work conversations near digital home assistants or smart speakers (like Alexa or Google Home) as they can record what you say and share it with your parent company.”
Alexa and Google, can they record our conversations?
smart systems Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa They have a voice detection algorithm that activates the device to register a command or request. With each activation of “Hey Google” or “Alexa”, the device can listen to what is mentioned in the environment.
Each command addressed to these assistants is recorded in the user’s personal cloud, which can be viewed in the privacy and data settings in each account.
However, there are a few cases where these devices start recording voice without the need to enter an activation command that immediately records everything that is capable of listening on the servers.
Ireland warns of Amazon and Google speakers
The representative of Oireachtas noted that this recommendation is part of the state policy applicable to all instances of the civil service.
According to a spokesman for the Irish Parliament, this disclaimer and privacy policy was updated late last year due to “the confidential nature of some of the jobs that government employees do while working from home.”
Source: RPP
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