California Anti-Eavesdropping Act Would Restrict Smart Home Speakers

A bill making its way through the California Legislature would prohibit makers of smart home speakers from saving or storing recordings without users’ explicit consent. The Anti-Eavesdropping Act, which cleared its first committee, would also ban smart speaker device manufacturers from sharing with third parties recordings of verbal commands or requests heard by the devices.

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