News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Continuous low-power music recognition by pavel_lishin on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:40AM (#16124681)
It was enabled on my phone - which I discovered at the dentist's office. Now, it's possible that I idly clicked "ok" while setting up my Pixel 2 - it's not out of the realm of possibility - but I'm not very likely to turn that on at all.

Germany has much more stringent privacy regulations than the US does - maybe that's the difference.

Re:Continuous low-power music recognition by itp on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:44AM (#16124740)
I've just recently set up a Pixel 2 XL straight from factory a few times over the last couple weeks, all in the US. Every time I had to opt in to the background music detection feature, even in the US.
Re:Continuous low-power music recognition by pavel_lishin on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:43AM (#16125298)
I must have toggled it on, then.