I use my voice to get a lot done. Siri sets meetings for me, silences my phone, and lots more. Tap or click for five simple voice commands you’ll use all the time. An Amazon Echo can help you find ...

For years, smartphone users have suspected that their devices were eavesdropping on their conversations to serve targeted ads. Now, recent revelations suggest these concerns could be justified. A ...

On Wednesday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri publicly addressed, and dispelled the persistent conspiracy theory that the social networking giant is actively listening to its users. The idea that Meta ...

Music education major Rachel Janielis says it’s stressful when she cannot properly hear a professor speaking or a presenter talking at events. “I remember an event at the beginning of the year when ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said a lot of things during the Congressional hearings this week, one of which was: “No, Facebook does not use your phone microphone to listen in on your conversations and ...

Some people, including myself, have reported this coincidence happening multiple times, leading to the assumption tech giants have access to the microphone in a smartphone and listen to people's ...

Last year, Facebook released a statement that it does not “listen” to conversations for the purpose of serving contextual advertising in the News Feed. And recently, a Facebook exec reiterated that ...

Last week, a speech recognition developer found a potential exploit in the Chrome web browser that could possibly let malicious web sites activate your Mac’s microphone and listen in on any sounds ...