Zuckerberg laughed on his private island where no one could hear him

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Are your devices listening? Yes, especially if there is any voice assistance technology in them, because it's almost certainly not in them but rather in the cloud where real humans also listen in for training purposes.

Breaking Into a Smart Home With A Laser - Smarter Every Day

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This demonstration is great for a couple of reasons. It demonstrates a complex security vulnerability in a way that ordinary people can connect with, but it's also careful not to hype up the threat and gives some solid recommendations on countermeasures.

You might want to keep them out of your bedroom

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This is something that probably bears repeating A LOT. Those smart speakers and smart phones and smart watches and other devices that obey your commands aren't simply computers, there are also people listening in to help the computers improve. All the major brands (Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri) of digital assistants are made of people, at least in part.

And honestly "Digital assistants are made of people" seems like it could make a pretty good catch phrase.