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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by gregknicholson on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:31AM (#18067184)
> Pixel phones have Shazam-like ability built in which uses minimal battery and without internet... and it's constantly running any time music plays.

Is it on by default? Cos that sounds really creepy.

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by ProAm on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:38AM (#18067278)
Shazam is also on by default [1] , so they are both creepy

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8ee3/shazam-kee...

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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by zwily on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:43PM (#18067952)
The Mac app is, which I didn't even know existed.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by matthewmacleod on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:29PM (#18069071)
To stress the point, this feature uses a local database, doesn't send any data off of the device, and is turned off by default.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by notatcomputer68 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:37PM (#18069761)
Imo the creepy thing is that phones are now powerful enough to run always on analysis, not that they are currently doing anything malicious with it.
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by kidsnow on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:41PM (#18067927)
Coming soon, Pixel will be able to recognize over 1 million individual voices in your area! Using our enormous database of phone calls to your area code and individualized location tracking, you will be able to find out everything about a person simply by holding your phone near their voice!
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Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam by bradstewart on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:36AM (#18067261)
No, it's not.
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