On July 5, Baidu's artificial intelligence assistant "Xiaodu Xiaodu" responded on its official Weibo in response to the incident of "a woman said that a smart speaker in a B&B secretly photographed tenants' privacy."

html On July 5, in response to the incident of "a woman said that the smart speaker in B&B secretly photographed the privacy of tenants", Baidu 's artificial intelligence assistant "Xiaodu Xiaodu" responded on the official Weibo.

Xiaodu Xiaodu said that the recording function shown in the video is the "care assistant" function of Xiaodu smart screen. The original intention of the development of this function is to help users take care of the elderly and children through the smart screen camera at home in remote places, so as to facilitate timely handling when accidents occur.

At the same time, Xiaodu Xiaodu emphasized that Xiaodu smart screens will not automatically turn on the camera and "care assistant" function by default. During the monitoring, recording and uploading of care videos, clear reminders will be given on the Xiaodu device and clearly informed. User the function is running. When the Xiaodu smart screen camera and microphone are running, an icon will appear on the upper right side of the screen to give you a clear reminder. If a Xiaodu product is in standby or not awake, Xiaodu will never automatically collect or identify the audio and video information of the user and surroundings.

In addition, Xiaodu Xiaodu stated that it has contacted the person involved in the video, firmly supports the person involved in the video to safeguard their rights, and will do its best to cooperate and assist the police in their inquiries and investigations.

In response to the common privacy and security issues of Xiaodu smart devices in hotels that everyone is concerned about, Xiaodu Xiaodu said that it has developed Xiaodu Smart Screen (Hotel Edition) specifically for hotels and other commercial channels, with the camera removed and nothing exposed except for the charging port. The physical port is removed, and the OTG interface is removed, and the secure ADB solution is used, which increases the difficulty of cracking the product from the outside, prevents rooting or brute force cracking from implanting malware, and protects user privacy to the greatest extent.

July 4, according to Sohu Clairvoyance, Ms. Yang from Benxi, Liaoning Province, was playing with a smart speaker in her bed and breakfast room on July 1 when she discovered that the camera above captured many private videos of the guests. Ms. Yang said that this smart speaker has a care mode and captured six or seven videos of herself and her friends walking around the room. There are also many private videos of strangers below. (Text | "Financial World" weekly Zheng Haojun)