Facebook,Google and Amazon are involved to get their novel devices under your tree. But will they give absent your privacy?If you’ve so far withstood the temptation to install a smart speaker in your home, worried approximately the potential privacy pitfalls and a bit embarrassed approximately the notion of chatting aimlessly to an inanimate thing, and brace yourselves. This Christmas,the world’s biggest tech giants, including Amazon, and Google and Facebook,are making another tender for your living room, announcing a range of novel devices that resemble tablets you can talk to.
Facebook’s is called Portal, and Google’s the Home Hub,and Amazon has unveiled the second version of its Echo Show. You can still speak to the digital assistants embedded in these devices, but their screens enable hands-free video calling (apart from the Google one), or can act as a control pad for various smart devices you may occupy around your home,such as thermostats or security cameras and (this feature is on heavy rotation in all the promotional material) you can use them to immediate you through a recipe without resorting to smearing your buttery fingers over your phone or laptop. And they’re on sale just in time for the festive season.
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Source: theguardian.com