Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor.

Two lawsuits are seeking class-action status, alleging that Amazon records children and stores their voiceprints indefinitely.

A patent filing from Amazon considers Alexa gaining awareness of your emotional and physical state.

Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what users say and do.

Amazon and Google have filed patent applications, many still under consideration, that outline how digital assistants can monitor more of what users say and do.

The Amazon Echo is vulnerable to a physical attack that allows an attacker to gain a root shell on the underlying Linux operating system and install malware without leaving physical evidence of tampering. Such malware could grant an attacker persistent remote access to the device, steal customer authentication tokens, and the ability to stream live microphone audio to remote services without altering the functionality of the device.