CWTV
Alexa, who else is listening?
Sex, private conversations, daily routines - smart assistants likes Alexa and Siri know often more about you, than you may think. This talk shows what metadata reveals about your private life. It investigates how private conversations, wrongly transmitted, are also analyzed by human transcribers, hired by big tech.
This talk investigates smart assistants like Alexa and Siri. For half a year we collected in an experiment our own Alexa voice data, analyzed and investigated it. We deeply looked into accidental triggers. These are words and sentences which wake Alexa and Siri up, even if they shouldn’t. Every time for a couple of seconds, audio data, is transmitted to Amazon or Apple. And as it is widely known, real people are listening to that. Sex, children, employers talking to their bosses – we met whistleblowers and transcribers, who have worked for the big tech companies. They improve the artificial intelligence of smart speakers for the price of private eavesdropping. The analyzed metadata revealed even more how deep smart speakers intrude your private sphere – and that in the end Amazon, Apple and Google will know (nearly) everything about you. Disclaimer: This research was part of a journalistic research, which was already published in june 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkXKPfvyBI&t=663s
Additional information
| Type | Talk |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
More sessions
| 12/27/20 |
Die Corona-Warn-App (CWA) verkörpert ein Novum von (einigermaßen) agilem staatlichen Handeln im Bereich Software. Wie kam es dazu? Dieser Vortrag erzählt die Geschichte der Entstehung aus einer Innenperspektive.
|
| 12/27/20 |
A quick dive into best practices including but not limited to semantic HTML and aria attributes and how they can make your website usable by a wider audience with relatively low effort.
|
| 12/27/20 |
This talk explains why audits are a useful method to ensure that machine learning systems operate in the interest of the public. Scripts to perform such audits are released and explained to empower civic hackers.
|
| 12/27/20 |
Was war das C-Netz? Was ist eine C-Netz-Basisstation? Was ist die Funkvermittlungsstelle? Wie bringt man damit die Basisstation wieder zum Laufen?
|
| 12/27/20 |
Gute Autismusrepresentation in Medien ist wichtig, aber auch schwer. In diesem Vortrag möchten wir uns angucken, wie autistische Menschen in Medien dargestellt werden und, was wir selbst an schlechten Beispielen über Empathie lernen können.
|
| 12/27/20 |
Noch nie war gemeinsammes Waffeln backen und verzehren so kompliziert wie dieses Jahr. Doch davon lässt sich das Chaos nicht aufhalten. Überall haben Hacksen, Hacker und alle Wesen des Chaos sich versammelt um unter dem Motto “Waffeln everywhere” gemeinsam eine wohlschmeckende remote Waffel Erfahrung zu haben.
|
| 12/28/20 |
An exploration of the available data discovered worldwide by probing MQTT endpoints. MQTT is a popular IoT protocol which, due to configuration, oversight or error (or all three), can be found open globally with at times highly personal data published for all to see. This talk encompasses the speaker's journey through developing a framework of parsing and exploring large datasets and building data collection and monitoring automation, showcasing the sheer lack of attention given to protection of ...
|
