This is rare, as devices from smartphones to televisions upload user data to the cloud for analysis by companies. Digital assistants can find patterns among their users more rapidly if connected with the processing power of cloud servers, though such methods potentially enable companies to better profile their customers. Those concerns may be moot anyway, since tech giants already have numerous ways to collect information about people’s lives, says Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Source: How Google, Apple phones will become robot assistants | Treeangle.co.id