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All ears: The dangers of voice assistants

01
Mar
2017

Nowadays the proverb “the walls have ears” is not as metaphoric as it used to be. “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it … There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched […]

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Google Downloaded Audio Listeners Without Users’ Consent, Chromium users say. Is your microphone on?

24
Jun
2015

Users of Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome, allege that Google listened into the conversations of users through a ‘black box’ of code. It is downloaded to enable a feature that activates a search function when you say “OK, Google,” but the code appears to have enabled eavesdropping on conversations prior to this to […]

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