Siri, Alexa ‘eavesdroppers’ leave tech giants facing probe
Amazon, Apple and Google are to be investigated over human reviewers listening in on instructions given to AI 'helpers'.
Regulators and lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe are examining whether Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are violating privacy by employing human reviewers to listen to voice commands recorded by digital assistants.
Apple and Google, which is currently being investigated by Hamburg's data protection authority, have both suspended their programs; Amazon late Friday announced changes to its terms that let users opt out of human review of their recordings. Regulators from Ireland and the U.K. are now also looking into whether the tech giants have infringed European privacy regulations.
"We are aware of privacy concerns relating to voice assi...