And then finally, Google joined the fray with the release of their own device called Home, which is similar to Amazon’s Echo. It’s a hardware which you can command to search and do stuff online, like ask it which team is winning the baseball match, with your voice.

But the thing with most of these voice-activated devices is that they are “connected” to the internet, which is a cause for concern to many users. They worry that these devices could be used by anyone to listen on them.