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July 30, 2015

Will the Internet listen to your private conversations?

  • Innovations in voice-recognition technology confront people with a choice pitting convenience against privacy.
    • By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
    AP Technology Writer

    SAN FRANCISCO — Like a lot of teenagers, Aanya Nigam reflexively shares her whereabouts, activities and thoughts on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks without a qualm.

    But Aanya's care-free attitude dissolved into paranoia a few months ago shortly after her mother bought Amazon's Echo, a digital assistant that can be set up in a home or office to listen for various requests, such as for a song, a sports score, the weather, or even a book to be read aloud.


     
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