Amazon’s patent application for an always-on feature for Alexa, its popular voice-activated personal assistant, has raised a lot of concern. An Alexa that’s always listening will likely prove more useful than an Alexa that isn’t; and, in any case, always-on devices are certainly our future. When you purchase an Alexa device, you are choosing to invite Amazon into your home to listen to you. But no always-on feature was necessary for those recordings to survive. We accept that our laptops and smart televisions are recording the choices we make and sending them we know not where.

Source: National Post June 09, 2019 22:32 UTC