July 22, 2019 By Lindsey O'Donnell
Threatpost talks to Tim Mackey with Synopsys about recent Amazon Echo and Google Home privacy faux pas. Will GDPR and other regulations catch up to the voice assistants?
Voice assistants are growing rapidly in popularity — but at the same time, the privacy concerns and security issues with popular home assistant devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are peaking too.
Earlier in July, Amazon came under fire after acknowledging that it retains the voice recordings and transcripts of customers’ interactions with its Alexa voice assistant indefinitely – raising questions about how long companies should be able to save highly-personal data collected from voice assistant devices.
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