Many consumers now rely on different forms of voice assistants, both stand-alone devices and those built into smartphones. Currently, these systems react to specific wake-words, such as "Alexa," "Siri," or "Ok Google." However, with advancements in natural language processing, the next generation of voice assistants could instead always listen to the acoustic environment and proactively provide services and recommendations based on conversations without being explicitly invoked. We refer to such devices as "always listening voice assistants" and explore expectations around their potential use. In this paper, we report on a 178-participant survey investigating the potential services people anticipate from such a device and how they feel about sharing their data for these purposes. Our findings reveal that participants can anticipate a wide range of services pertaining to a conversation; however, most of the services are very similar to those that existing voice assistants currently provide with explicit commands. Participants are more likely to consent to share a conversation when they do not find it sensitive, they are comfortable with the service and find it beneficial, and when they already own a stand-alone voice assistant. Based on our findings we discuss the privacy challenges in designing an always-listening voice assistant.

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The Association of Struggle of Revolutionary National Socialists commonly called the "Black Front" was an opposition organization in relation to NSDAP. It based its program on the doctrine developed by Otto Strasser. The aim of the Black Front was to bring about a revolution in a socialist and nationalist spirit. The revolution was supposed to overthrow the Weimar Republic system, as well as Adolf Hitler later. After the Führer came to power, the Black Front became one of the main enemies of the Reich. Many of its members were murdered in the "night of long knives", others were arrested. Until 1945, members of the organization were in exile. After the Second World War many organizations appealed to the idea of the Black Front not only in West Germany, but also in other countries.