Do you want your smart speaker to stop snooping? Try on the “bracelet of silence.”
The funky-looking gadget was designed by computer-science professors to jam the Amazon Echo and keep any nearby microphones from listening in on your conversations.
The researchers say they could manufacture the device for just 20 bucks. That’d give us a thrifty (but oh-so-chic) way to tell Bezos to butt out.
It’s part of a growing economy of gizmos and apps that are meant to protect us from the rise of the machines.
With smart speaker sales booming and facial recognition tech taking off, privacy armor might be the next big trend on the runway.
This new wave of anti-tech highlights a weird phenomenon: Companies have been slow to patch the problematic parts of our smart infrastructure. So entrepreneurial types are selling products to mitigate the downsides of connected tech.
Services like Disconnect.Me and Jumbo work like digital cloaks — to shield your devices, not your face.
They’re designed to help you manage privacy settings and put more layers between your personal info and the snoopers who might be after it.