Is your phone listening to you? (re-air) (Lock and Code S07E03)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit an episode from 2025 in which we tried to answer: Is your phone listening to you? ...
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Apple Device Users Can File Claims in $95 Million Siri Spying Settlement

Apple earlier this year agreed to a $95 settlement to end a lawsuit filed in 2021 that claimed the company's AI-powered assistant Siri recorded users' conversations even when it wasn't prompted to ...
Security Boulevard
Best of 2021 - Alexa, OK Google, Siri—Sued for Spying

Best of 2021 – Alexa, OK Google, Siri—Sued for Spying

Amazon, Apple and Google will have their days in court, charged with listening to your conversations when you least expect it ...
Security Boulevard
1,000 False Wakewords: A Letter! Buy 200 Toilet Rolls

1,000 False Wakewords: A Letter! Buy 200 Toilet Rolls

Researchers have found a thousand ways to say smart-speaker wakewords, highlighting the privacy problems. Again ...
Security Boulevard
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Whistleblower Says Apple Built Secret Dossier on You, via Siri

Ex-Apple contractor doubles down on warning: Apple misusing audio recordings from the Siri voice assistant ...
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Hey Alexa, Whats a Phone Book?

“Hey Alexa, What’s a Phone Book?”

Recently, my husband came home from his day at work and during our normal evening conversation, I asked, “How was work today?” His reply was, “It was alright, we had another order ...
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Facebook Data Leaks, Smart Speaker Laser Attack, BlueKeep in the Wild

You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 94 for November 11th 2019: Facebook’s Group API data ...

DoorDash Data Breach, Voice Assistant Privacy Changes, Limiting Ad Tracking

You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 88 for September 30th 2019: DoorDash announces a data ...

Android “Ghost Click” Apps, New Apple Siri Privacy Protections, Credit Card Spying

You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 84 for September 2nd 2019: “Ghost click” Android apps ...
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Our Devices Listening?

…or is it “are devices listening” to you? Well yes. There’s always a simple answer to these questions and it’s yes. Breaking it down to the basics, pretty much all of our ...