# Privacy aspects for Voice Assistants
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/privacy-aspects-for-voice-assistants/12350
**Category:** Archive - Former Random Mycroft Category
**Created:** [July 21, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/privacy-aspects-for-voice-assistants/12350 "2022-07-21T15:54:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ScienceGuy](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ScienceGuy)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/privacy-aspects-for-voice-assistants/12350/21 "2022-08-02T14:15:06Z")
I would not conclude the discussion the same way.
I guess most people do not know what voice processing could achieve for a company interested in exploiting it (comercially and otherwise). It also makes a huge difference if we talk about consumers or corporate users (employees). In the latter case, confidentiality is a critical requirement and off-site processing has more implications (up to the point where you need a contract).
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### Author:  [@ScienceGuy](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ScienceGuy)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/privacy-aspects-for-voice-assistants/12350/22 "2022-08-02T14:22:18Z")
This is an interesting interaction. I think that assistants need a comprehensive and granular consent management service. Comprehensive means it counts for all skills and features. Granular means you can control behavior, for instance:
- per skill/feature
- per context (e.g., location or topic)
- globally
- per user (assuming multi-user capabilities)
- per device
- based on profiles (e.g. paranoid)
- proactive (user instructs assistent when to use Internet)
- reactive (assistant asks if it can use Internet)
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