A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.
A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.
In the case of Alexa or Google Nest, it’s not actually constantly recording or sending stuff to the cloud. Those things have a special wake-word chip, that is trained on one or a few phrases (okay google). That’s fully offline, and only once it detects the wake word does it activate the actual microphone and processing.
If you believe Google and Amazon, that is. Which I surely don’t. But if they were actually constantly recording and sending that data somewhere, security researchers would have noticed odd traffic in their network.