After an Oregon family described a scenario that encapsulated the worst fears about owning a smart speaker — their Amazon Echo picked up a private conversation and then shared it with the outside ...

“Eavesdropping” is a sensitive word for Amazon, which has battled lots of consumer confusion about when, how and even who is listening to us when we use an Alexa device. But much of this problem is of ...

We have two stories this week: first, the surprising history "elevator music." Turns out, Muzak was a real company. And then we reveal how much Amazon's Alexa and other smart speakers are really ...

Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles on the law of eavesdropping.

"I felt invaded," one of the family members said. "A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, 'I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it.'" Researchers say they tricked ...

Can one artificial intelligence tool outsmart another? Scientists at Columbia University in New York City think they’ve devised an AI that can effectively fool an eavesdropping automatic speech ...