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

we are having a conversation shulevitz this morning, contributor to the atlantic. if you want to join the conversation, easy enough to do. if you are in the eastern or central time zone, (202) 748-8000, mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. judith shulevitz, you know that google and amazon are pushing these devices to the point where last holiday season, they lost money with of the sales with some of the discounts on these. why are they doing that and where do they see this technology going? judith: industry observers speculate about that. we do not know. they see them as loss leaders. they want to hook you to their brand so that as these voices move into the internet of things, your cars, your whatever it is, refrigerators, stoves, per sonal appliances, they will be hooked into the google's ecosystem or the amazon ecosystem or the apple ecosystem. whoever wins that market wins the war. that's where the money is going to be. host: before we get there, there are hurdles they need to overcome. you talk about a few of them. start with the privacy hurdle. we

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

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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