{"id":44039,"date":"2018-12-07T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=37989"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:30:26","slug":"frenchtechfriday-keep-your-home-private-with-snips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2018\/12\/frenchtechfriday-keep-your-home-private-with-snips\/","title":{"rendered":"#FrenchTechFriday: Keep your home private with Snips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yann Lechelle, Snips COO, at the Digital Tech Conference 2018 in Rennes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Personal assistants have made their way into our homes. We have opened our doors to Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook… We are giving them the key to our most best-kept secret: our family. And we pay for it with private information. French startup <\/span>Snips<\/a> wants to take to nosing out of voice assistants with strong ethics on privacy<\/span>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Voice: the new interface<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Talk is one of the first means of communication acquired by a toddler, even before she can hold a pen (or stylus) <\/span><\/span>properly<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>It’s also one of the easiest ways to get your ideas across if you suffer from some impediment (except speech, of course)<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Voice is becoming the obvious new interface for all tech designers.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It serves another purpose too. <\/span>Once at home, it offers a more laid-back approach to technology and allows one to finally put aside that smartphone that has been spitting out notifications all day<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Voice assistants are the natural smartphone replacement at home.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Privacy issues<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The common accusation “it listens to everything I say” <\/span>is unfounded<\/span><\/span>. Catching the trigger word does not mean listening (and recording) everything. Pretty much like when someone calls out your name in a loud crowd. You react to your name although you haven’t been listening to all the chatter.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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However<\/span><\/span>, these assistants <\/span>can be hacked<\/span><\/a> and continuous recording streamed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Moreover, even without hacking, the history of your searches and activities on GAFAM assistants gets added to your – already – fat file<\/span><\/span>. Making you more <\/span>easily<\/span><\/span> segmented for marketers and their ads.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Privacy-by-Design<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The privacy issues are Snips main concern. The entire Snips system <\/span>is designed<\/span><\/span> to protect the user’s privacy. It runs <\/span>autonomously<\/span><\/span>, on the platform of your choice: Raspberry Pi, Linux, Android.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The collected data remains yours, so are the data sets you may use.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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All queries\u00a0<\/span>are processed<\/span><\/span> locally<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Snips doesn’t mean to sell a single voice assistant but rather to have its system implemented into various devices<\/span><\/span>. Snips can find its way in cars, home appliances and makes the delight of tech-savvy makers. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Snips team and history<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The Snips adventure started 5 years ago but the R&D process ended a year ago.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The team <\/span>is made<\/span><\/span> of 73 “idealists” as COO Yann Lechelle puts it. <\/span>They feel they are on a mission to put AI in all devices and to make technology disappear while preserving privacy<\/span><\/span>. And they won’t settle for compromises on this last point.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The idea that Artificial Intelligence and privacy can go hand in hand has seduced many investors<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>The startup has already raised almost <\/span><\/span>22 million Euros<\/span><\/a> from investors such as Xavier Niel, Bpifrance, Maif, Korelya Capital and The Hive<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As Snips prepares to launch its own device next year, it is also raising money in the form of an ICO: the Snips token. <\/span>It will <\/span><\/span>be used<\/span><\/span> to create a self-governed community that <\/span><\/span>is incentivized<\/span><\/span> to curate the app store and to\u00a0make it better<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Snips’ journey so far has been uncompromising. <\/span>After producing an effective locally-based artificial intelligence, the next step is the release of their own device<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Designed to make sure that what happens within your home remains yours.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Personal assistants have made their way into our homes. We have opened our doors to Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook… We are giving them the key to our most best-kept secret: our family. And we pay for it with private information. French startup Snips wants to take to nosing out of voice assistants with strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[7462,7463],"class_list":["post-44039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-cloud-en","tag-xavier-niel-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}