New research may have found a tool to protect us from our listening devices. Click the link to learn more.
Our phones are not spying on us, says Jonathan Weissman, a cybersecurity expert at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. But our apps might be. An app that has access to your phone’s microphone can certainly hear what you’re saying. Weissman suggests to beware of the access you give apps, such as the camera, contacts list and photos.
Of course, devices like Alexa and Google Assistant are supposed to listen to us, otherwise how would they know to set our alarm or order a pizza? These devices do listen, says Weissman, but they don’t record or share any information until we activate them with the wake-up word. The new tech of machine learning creates a background noise while you talk. But it’s not just any background noise. It’s specifically designed to confuse the Artificial Intelligence that’s listening to you. It finds patterns in your speech, then changes your words just slightly, in a way that a human could still understand, but would baffle a fellow AI.
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