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ARTICLE · 18 JANUARY 2019

Smart Homes And New (IT) Housemates (Part 1)

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Everyday life has changed significantly since artificial intelligence has become a reality.

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Everyday life has changed significantly since artificial intelligence has become a reality. This revolution has influenced our habits both at work and at home. The automatization of banking decisions, a robot that cleans the floor, a coffee machine that prepares coffee autonomously, a machine that prepares meals using the ingredients at hand—many are the innovations now available in the market, and even the most sceptical person may be tempted to transform his/her house into an automated world.

Among all the innovations, the home assistant is one of the most representative, yet it may give rise to a number of issues, mainly connected to the use of the data it collects. Just a few days ago, reports conveyed that a well-known home assistant's recordings were communicated by the developing company to the wrong user; more specifically, a device user had asked to review his archived data and received someone else's conversations. By matching the information collected in

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