• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    you just need to process the audio on the devices and then send keywords to Google etc. it’s technically trivial since most phones already have dedicated hardware for that. your phone listens to activation words all the time, unless you disable it. there is no reason why they can’t also forward anything else it hears as text

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        1 year ago

        I would assume that you are right, considering how much gargage you collect if listening.

        Now imagine recording those who have not given consent, or the device saving full scripts of movies.

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            1 year ago

            Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.

            This happens a lot.

            I think you’re being naive if you believe they don’t locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.

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      1 year ago

      Ok but third parties have no access to this in the background. My guess is they are buying marketing data from their listed “partners” and making wide claims about how they obtained it. Still a huge breach of privacy though!