Can Mycroft's Privacy-Centric Voice Assistant Take On Alexa And Google?

Montgomery is the CEO of Mycroft, which for the past few years has been building an open-source alternative to big tech's voice assistants. He doesn't trust any of those companies–not Google, nor Apple, nor Amazon–to protect people's privacy or act in users' best interests. "When you look the history of big tech, and what they've done with user data, it's full of privacy issues. It's full of self-enrichment at the expense of the user," Montgomery says. "I don't have any confidence at all that they're not going to use those same techniques and tactics in their new technology."