Privacy Concerns

Loup Ventures Managing Partner, Gene Munster, on President Trump calling on U.S. companies to shift manufacturing out of China and what it would mean for companies such as Apple. Apple has said it will no longer have human contractors listen to audio recordi…

Apple's apologizing...again. This time, the company is sorry not because a highly anticipated product is canceled (RIP AirPower), but because it failed to properly disclose to customers that it used contractors to listen to a small portion of their Siri audi…

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo has confirmed its NEX 3 5G will unveil in September, days after the brand was discovered to be ranged in JB Hi-Fi Australia. The brand confirmed the NEX 3 5G’s launch via an official Weibo post, as the market for 5G devic…

Tech giant Google is betting big on Indian market and bringing in hardware products from its global portfolio to the country to cash in on the growing demand for smart devices. The US-based company - which on August 26 launched its Google Nest Hub in India -…

China's Xiaomi is poised to launch a consumer lending business in India in the coming weeks, making an ambitious tilt at the booming financial services market where data privacy concerns and fierce competition present formidable challenges. The stakes are hi…

China's Xiaomi is poised to launch a consumer lending business in India in the coming weeks, making an ambitious tilt at the booming financial services market where data privacy concerns and fierce competition present formidable challenges. The stakes are hi…

Angela Lang/CNET Smart displays, as we've come to call them, are countertop touchscreen devices that also feature either the Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant voice services. The Amazon Echo Show was the first example in this category, and while it had a clun…

There have been lots of exposés over the last few weeks about the fact that numerous companies -- including Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google -- have been listening to recordings of interactions between customers and digital assistants. The latest…

All of your voice assistants are listening to youand so are the humans behind them.  A string of recent reports revealed that the worlds largest tech companies employ human moderators to listen to recordings of users issuing commands to their voice assistant…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Amazon admitted recently that human contractors sometimes reviewed a small number of Alexa recordings. Among the thousands upon thousands of words that make up the privacy policies of the tech giants, one you rarely…