{"id":11340,"date":"2018-11-27T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:40","slug":"hey-alexa-stop-listening-to-everything-i-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/27\/hey-alexa-stop-listening-to-everything-i-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Alexa, stop listening to everything I say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11342\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244.png\" alt=\"Google Home and Amazon Alexa devices\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-200x133.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Smart speakers like Amazon&#8217;s Alexa and Google Home that can give you the weather forecast, play your favorite tunes, or control the lights in your house are a hot ticket item for the holidays. <a href=\"https:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/hey-alexa-stop-listening-everything-i-say\">But not for everyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research from the U-M School of Information looked at privacy perceptions, concerns, and privacy-seeking behaviors with smart speakers. <strong>Florian Schaub<\/strong>, assistant professor of information and senior author of the study, said some of those who haven\u2019t adopted smart speakers don\u2019t believe they\u2019ll have much use for them, but about half of those interviewed were worried about privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps of more concern, he said, were the sentiments and behaviors of those who have adopted them but were unconcerned about protecting themselves and were not using the privacy features. \u201cWe found that people were resigned to giving up their privacy, and they rationalize this choice by saying it\u2019s just a little more data that Google is getting or Amazon is getting about me,\u201d Schaub said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart speakers like Amazon&#8217;s Alexa and Google Home that can give you the weather forecast, play your favorite tunes, or control the lights in your house are a hot ticket item for the holidays. But not for everyone. Recent research from the U-M School of Information looked at privacy perceptions, concerns, and privacy-seeking behaviors with smart speakers. Florian\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/27\/hey-alexa-stop-listening-to-everything-i-say\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[598,217,121],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-assistant","tag-culture","tag-privacy"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244.png",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-200x133.png",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-768x442.png",665,383,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-700x403.png",600,345,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244.png",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244.png",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-665x382.png",665,382,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Alexa-Home-e1544671218244.png",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Smart speakers like Amazon&#8217;s Alexa and Google Home that can give you the weather forecast, play your favorite tunes, or control the lights in your house are a hot ticket item for the holidays. But not for everyone. Recent research from the U-M School of Information looked at privacy perceptions, concerns, and privacy-seeking behaviors with&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11345,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions\/11345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}