Privacy concerns might throw a wrench into companies’ plans to make Internet-connected devices mainstream fixtures in the home.
Companies like Google, Samsung, Microsoft and Amazon are being targeted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a prominent Washington, D.C., nonprofit, over the technologies present in some of their newest audio and visual sensing devices. On Friday, the group asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to investigate whether such devices violate federal wiretap and state privacy laws, and whether the devices deceive consumers.
In a letter sent to both agencies, the group takes aim at what it calls “always on” devices and software that listen to users and offer services based on verbal cues or commands or visual signals like movement.
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