Experts have been urging smart speaker users to be mindful about where they keep their devices
Smart speakers can be a great help around the house and are a popular gift option, especially around Christmas time.
Read more:"Pay the f****** money back": Family traumatised as thugs smash house in late night random attack After Dr Fry asked tech firms to provide the data they had collected on her, she said she found recordings of conversations taken from within her home. She added that 'very senior' people in the tech industry won't even take a smartphone into their bedroom and buyers should be very wary of low price technology with microphones linked to the internet.
"These devices are always on, collecting data about you and your habits to better provide services—but there is no filter, and they simply collect it all. This makes it too easy to share private data with big tech that you did not intend to share."
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