Attentive Assistant Makers Patent their Leverage

This article in yesterday's NYT discusses how companies who have attentive sytems, like Amazon and Google, have pending patents that describe how they can take advantage of what they hear.   Yet the companies involved usually deny that what is heard is retained.   What are the implications for privacy, and who is responsible?

Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?
By Sapna Maheshwari ... in the NYT on 3/31/2018 

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