Germany planning to access voice assistant data to tackle crime

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Germany planning to access voice assistant data to tackle crime

To extract evidence from Amazon's Alexa or smart fridges.

German authorities are working on guidelines to allow them to access data held by voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa or smart fridges to help them fight crime, a spokesman for the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Voice assistants, increasingly popular even in privacy-conscious Germany, ...

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