{"id":1844,"date":"2017-10-13T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/147.91.204.66\/wordpress\/echo-and-home-will-probably-have-to-tell-you-theyre-always-listening-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:11:27","slug":"echo-and-home-will-probably-have-to-tell-you-theyre-always-listening-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/147.91.204.66\/wordpress\/echo-and-home-will-probably-have-to-tell-you-theyre-always-listening-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo and Home will probably have to tell you they\u2019re always listening \u2014 in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":" <style>\r\n  .ui-tabs {display: table; }\r\n  .ui-tabs-nav {display: table;}\r\n \r\na.ui-tabs-anchor {\r\n\tfont-family: Tahoma;\r\n\tfont-size: 15px; \r\n\tcolor: #B52700;\r\n        margin: 5px 20px;\r\n}\r\n\r\ndiv.ui-tabs-panel {\r\n\tfont-family: Tahoma;\r\n\tfont-size: 14px;\r\n\tfont-weight: normal;\r\n\tcolor: #B35B22;\r\n}\r\n\r\n  <\/style><p>See details of post Echo and Home will probably have to tell you they\u2019re always listening \u2014 in Europe below<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-282916\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/figz\/wp-content\/seloads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-11.57.37-AM-800x541.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A number of Google Home Mini devices that were distributed to members of the press had a defect that caused them to record everything being said around them. This discovery renewed privacy concerns surrounding smart speakers as\u00a0surreptitious listening devices in our homes.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was first discovered by Android Police. Once being notified, Google investigated and fixed the issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Google Home team is aware of an issue impacting a small number of Google Home Mini devices that could cause the touch control mechanism to behave incorrectly. We immediately rolled out a software update on October 7 to mitigate the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Who is affected: People who received an early release Google Home Mini device at recent Made by Google events. Pre-ordered Google Home Mini purchases aren\u2019t affected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a general matter, Google Home and Amazon Alexa devices must \u201clisten\u201d to surrounding conversations to capture \u201cwake words\u201d (e.g.,\u201dAlexa,\u201d \u201cOK Google\u201d) that activate them. Some privacy advocates have sounded alarms about this and expressed concern that these devices could be abused by unscrupulous law enforcement or other malevolent state actors (see Orwell\u2019s Telescreen).<\/p>\n<p>In a well-publicized criminal case in Arkansas,\u00a0local prosecutors sought recordings on an Amazon Echo in a murder investigation. Amazon fought to prevent authorities from getting access to these recordings without a warrant. The defendant in the case ultimately consented to the release of any stored data, so the warrant issue was never formally ruled on by a court.<\/p>\n<p>As Internet of Things devices proliferate, privacy warnings about personal data collection will intensify. It\u2019s very likely that there will be more than 30 million smart speakers in US homes by year-end. Google and Amazon are competitively discounting and aggressively marketing them. Google\u2019s $49 Home Mini was introduced as a low-cost answer to the Amazon Echo Dot, which Amazon\u00a0just discounted to be $5 cheaper than the Mini.<\/p>\n<p>These devices are also widely available in Europe, which raises the question of how they will be addressed under the forthcoming\u00a0General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)\u00a0taking effect in May 2018. Millions of smart speakers will be installed in European homes by then.<\/p>\n<p>In order to process \u201cpersonal data,\u201d companies must obtain opt-in consent from users:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consent must be clear and distinguishable from other matters and provided in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. It must be as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give it.\u200b Explicit consent is required only for processing sensitive personal data \u2014 in this context, nothing short of \u201copt in\u201d will suffice. However, for non-sensitive data, \u201cunambiguous\u201d consent will suffice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that these devices will be \u201cprocessing sensitive personal data\u201d and that explicit consent will be required in every case.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.searchengineland.com\/~r\/searchengineland\/~3\/WHmEGxo2d6k\/echo-home-will-probably-tell-theyre-always-listening-europe-284435\">see more here<\/a><\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\n jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n    jQuery( \"#tabs_1844\" ).tabs({\r\n    collapsible: true,\r\n    active: false\r\n        });\r\n\tjQuery( \".scroller_1844\" ).width(jQuery( \".scroller_1844\" ).width()+1);\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n  });\r\n  \r\n  <\/script>\r\n  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See details of post Echo and Home will probably have to tell you they\u2019re always listening \u2014 in Europe below A number of Google Home Mini devices that were distributed to members of the press had a defect that caused them to record everything being said around them. 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