The rapid improvement in speech recognition technology, which over the past decade has given rise to virtual speech assistants such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google Voice, Microsoft Cortana and others, is spilling into new areas that are beginning to have a significant impact on the workplace. These consumer speech portals have already raised extensive new privacy concerns. "Computers have a much greater ability to organize, access and evaluate human communications than do people," said Marc Rotenberg, the president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. In 2015, the group filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Samsung, arguing that the capture and storage of conversations by their smart TVs was a new threat to privacy. Speech transcription potentially pushes traditional privacy concerns into new arenas both at home and work, he said.