Ad Hoc Voice Assistant Features Raise More Questions
The fact that modern gadgets collect information about their owners has not surprised anyone for a long time. It is also not surprising that voice assistants - programs built on human speech recognition - joined the surveillance of users. And if the products of Western IT giants usually use the data obtained to advertise goods and services, then the super-successful development of the Chinese corporation iFlytek learned to send the eavesdropped directly to the PRC government. The loudest about this fact is the American side, whose developers own espionage techniques no worse than Chinese colleagues.