Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed - Bloomberg
The tech giants are demanding a continuous stream of customer information from smart-home manufacturers, prompting privacy concerns.
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Smartklokken reddet Toralv lørdag natt – NRK Norge
https://www.nrk.no/norge/smartklokken-reddet-toralv-lordag-natt-1.14412266
Natt til lørdag falt Toralv Østvang (67) hardt i badegulvet alene på Hamar. En knapp halvtime senere fant politiet ham blodig og bevisstløs. De hadde fått beskjed av smartklokken rundt håndleddet hans.
Ring let employees watch customer videos, claim reports - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18177305/ring-employees-unencrypted-customer-video-amazon
Smart doorbell company Ring allowed employees to share unencrypted customer videos with each other
Beijing plans to adopt facial recognition-enabled smart locks in its public housing projects involving 120K tenants in 2019 to crack down on illegal subletting - South China Morning Post
Amazon gives a German Alexa user, who requested his personal data under GDPR, access to 1,700 audio files of another user; Amazon says it was due to human error
Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test
https://loupventures.com/annual-smart-speaker-iq-test/
Google Assistant was able to answer 88% of them correctly vs. Siri at 75%, Alexa at 73%, and Cortana at 63%
Over a 12-month period, Google Home improved by 7 percentage points, Echo by 9 points, Siri (9-month) by 22 points, and Cortana by 7 points
Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s - MIT Technology Review
It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day.
Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46181800
A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died.