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Tattle-tail tech

In the world of big tech, respect for user privacy is fleeting.

11 October 2021

In November 2018, an Amazon Echo voice-activated personal assistant was a probable witness to a double murder, and the courts ordered Amazon to hand over the voice files recorded by the device on the night in question. Cases like this were early signals that what happens on our devices does not necessarily stay on our devices. Indeed, since then, lawmakers across the world have suggested Internet of Things objects should be called up as expert witnesses in courts – to testify against their owners.

The conversations we have in our own homes and cars in the presence of our smart connected devices are just not as private as we may like to pretend.

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