Shh, Your Speaker is Listening: California Considers Consumer Privacy Protections for Smart Speaker Devices
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/05/21
Existing California law regulates the operation of voice recognition features for smart televisions. Manufacturers and their contracting third parties, for example, are prohibited from selling or using—for any advertising purpose—actual recordings of spoken words collected for a specified purpose through the operation of a voice recognition feature. On May 10, 2021, the California Assembly passed AB-1262, which seeks to extend these consumer protections to users of smart speaker devices that...
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