Protecting children from voice assistants’ data collection zeal
10 July 2019 |
6:00 am
A report by German parliamentary researchers has said that Amazon's voice assistant Alexa also collects data from children and clueless visitors. That needs to change, they say, but the "how to" remains unclear.
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