host: judith shulevitz? guest: i do not think that china has chips and everything. these things are manufactured all over the world at this point. i do think that we have been very lax and united states on cybersecurity. we have dropped the ball. senator mark warner has been aing around promoting cybersecurity doctrine in which carefullyo think more about what kind of technology and privacy we are going to allow into our homes, offices, and personal devices. think -- i do not see it as widespread as the caller, but we need to have policies that take this kind of security risk into account. host: will is in charleston, west virginia. caller: i had a question. in west virginia, our state constitution calls for certain protections around things you check out from a library. do you see may the information collected by these devices bringing about similar legislation? guest: i hope so. i hope you are right. i had not thought about the connection with the privacy over what you check out from the library as being used as a model for what we could have in terms of cyber pri

host: judith shulevitz joins us now from new york and she is a contribute for "the atlantic. she recently explored the technology behind digital assistant. start by explaining what digital assistants are and how prevalent they are today in society. judith my piece was specifically : about voice activated digital assistants. beital assistants tend to shorthand for that. i was talking specifically about canisters or hockey pucks or ovoid devices we have in our home to help us cook or make music on or get the weather from. those are the first items that we are bringing into our homes that her voice activated digital assistants. in the piece, i go further and talk about the future of these, and we will be getting more and more and they will move into the internet of things. we will be talking to our refrigerators, our toilets, our cars, and our cars will be talking to us. all these things will be talking to us. the piece is about how we are in the first stages of bringing these things into our homes. and where does going from there. host: who is most likely to be buying these thi

lantic" contributor judith shulevitz. also, during the holiday week, be sure to watch "washington week,l" for authors featuring live segments with authors. former federal reserve chair janet yellen told a new york audience last week that she worried about another financial crisis while talking about some of the lessons learned from 2008. she also spoke about the likelihood of interest rates rising and other topic

host: judith shulevitz? guest: i do not think that china has chips and everything.ngs are manufactured all over the world at this point. i do think that we have been very lax and united states on cybersecurity. we have dropped the ball. senator mark warner has been aing around promoting cybersecurity doctrine in which carefullyo think more about what kind of technology and privacy we are going to allow into our homes, offices, and personal devices. think -- i do not see it as widespread as the caller, but we need to have policies that take this kind of security risk into account. host: will is in charleston, west virginia. caller: i had a question. in west virginia, our state constitution calls for certain protections around things you check out from a library. do you see may the information collected by these devices bringing about similar legislation? guest: i hope so. i hope you are right. i had not thought about the connection with the privacy over what you check out from the library as being used as a model for what we could have in terms of cyber privacy, that

host: judith shulevitz joins us now from new york and she is a contribute for "the atlantic. she recently explored the technology behind digital assistant. start by explaining what digital assistants are and how prevalent they are today in society. judith my piece was specifically : about voice activated digital assistants. beital assistants tend to shorthand for that.

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host: judith shulevitz joins us now from new york and she is a contributor for "the atlantic" and explore the technology behind digital assistants. start by explaining what digital assistants are and how prevalent they are in society. guest: my piece was specifically about voice activated digital assistants. digil