Invasion of privacy with smart home devices. Are they always listening?
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There has been a bit of speculation lately concerning privacy with smart home devices. Many people believe that they are always listening. In early April of 2019, Amazon confirmed that Amazon workers were also listening through the Amazon Alexa smart home devices. This doesn't just concern people that use the Amazon smart home devices. It also concerns people that use other brands of devices such as google home and Siri. Google also confirmed that its smart devices were always listening. This issue concerns many people for privacy reasons.
At least devices like the Alexa, Google Home, etc are developed by large companies; the "invasion of privacy" that happens is at least performed by a relatively-reputable actors that have decent internal security so you at least know WHO is invading your privacy.
The real fear should be with less intrusive "smart home" devices created by smaller companies. People are more likely to trust a single smart home "security" camera than they are to trust an assistant like Alexa or Google Home. Many of these devices have horrible security and wind up entangled in untargeted botnet clusters anyways; when a targeted attack happens on these devices, your privacy can then become violated by UNKNOWN actors.
Smart home devices are disastrous for privacy, and it isn't just the full-scale assistants developed by large companies.
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