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[NetEase smart news November 30 news] Voice is becoming a major smart interface. It can involve many aspects of our daily use, such as home appliances, automobiles, and mobile applications. We can turn off electric lights via voice operations, order takeaways, buy weekly groceries, or listen to our favorite albums, all through the use of one of the most natural human characteristics - sounds, like Amazon Echo, Alexa Implemented with smart speakers such as Google Home.
The convenience of these devices is endless. We only need to put these inconsequential devices on the bedside table or in the living room. Then they can hear every word we say. This is how safe and convenient it looks!
A more comprehensive view of smart speakers
Voice recognition technologies like Apple's Siri have been around for some time. However, smart speakers have changed the traditional rules of the game. Based on the use of voice-activated artificial intelligence, smart speakers can be connected to third-party IoT devices, such as your thermostat or door, so that you can use your own voice to control what belongs to you around you. These speakers want to be your virtual assistant, they will change the way you interact with your family, smart devices or even your favorite shopping brand.
If you say a specific trigger word to the speakers, your voice will be processed by the cloud of its device. These smart speakers are designed so that when they hear a specific activation word, they immediately wake up and record the words.
This means that in some cases, the device will store the conversation without the user's knowledge. A prosecutor even issued a search warrant based on the echo of a suspect's recording in a smart speaker, which contained evidence of a murder.
In addition, there is a device that can activate smart speakers by using trigger words. This is what Burger King used in a recently produced TV commercial that has just won the Cannes International Film Festival Award.
At the end of the campaign, the actor activated Google Home and recited the Wikipedia description of the Burger King product of Burger King. He said: “Well, Google, what is Fort Warburg?†All of these make us ask ourselves: having a voice-activated smart microphone How much privacy does the family hold in the end?
Is your privacy threatened?
Smart speakers are equipped with a network-connected microphone that constantly listens for a trigger word. When the user triggers the smart speaker and makes a request, the device sends a command to the server that processed the request and generates a response.
This device can store audio clips remotely. You can use Amazon and Google devices to view and delete this information online. However, it is not yet clear whether these data will remain on the server after being deleted.
Currently, devices can only log requests, but as their capabilities become more advanced, more sensitive data may be collected, such as call logs and emails. So where will these data be stored?
In addition, can hackers use the back-end encoding of these devices to eavesdrop on what you say? In fact, nothing is impossible, but both Google and Amazon have taken preventive measures to prevent eavesdropping. In addition, audio files sent to their data centers are encrypted, meaning that even if your network is compromised, hackers are unlikely to use smart speakers as listening devices.
If someone is holding your Amazon or Google password to eavesdrop on your behavior, this is the biggest risk. So make sure you use a complicated password - you can even consider setting up double security.
Protect your privacy
If your smart speaker can hear your private conversation, it will still make you feel uneasy. But you can turn off the device manually or change your account settings to make your device look safer.
You can increase privacy protection through some settings, such as password protection, and control the sound notification function that lets you know when the speaker is active and recorded. You can also log in to your Amazon or Google account and delete your voice history (whether alone or multiple).
If you want your Google device to do this, go to myactivity.google.com, click on "My Activity", and click on "Delete My Activity" in its drop-down menu. Click "All Products", select "Voice and Audio" in the drop-down menu, and then click Delete.
For Amazon's products, go to "amazon.com/myx", then click on the "Your Device" tab, select your Alexa device, and click "Manage Voice Recordings." A pop-up message will appear. All you need to do is click "Delete."
However, please note that deleting your history on your smart speakers may affect your personalized experience.
Developers can also use privacy design assistants such as Snips. However, due to the lack of network connectivity on these devices, the use of assistants may be limited to a certain extent.
Balance between privacy and convenience
Combining the development speed of smart speakers and the Internet of Things industry, we can be sure that they will appear more and more in our daily lives. This means that it is crucial to understand how they work and to find ways to prevent them from invading personal privacy.
In theory, smart speakers may pose a threat to our personal privacy. However, they are not particularly sensitive in this respect because they only trigger when specific words or phrases are heard, only these specific word phrases are recorded.
In addition, the probability of a device accidentally recording a private conversation is also low. Over the years, Google, Amazon and other websites have been recording our online activities. And now, these companies are beginning to collect our voice clips. In the pursuit of convenience, personal privacy is sometimes sacrificed. In this case, for most users, access to convenience is their most important consideration.
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