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Re:Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s b... by Buge on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:39AM (#19042640)
Amazon Echo and Google Home only send data to the servers when they detect the wake word. That's a lot different than sending everything.
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Re:Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s b... by pmontra on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:05AM (#19043927)
Sometimes they make mistakes (false positives for the wake word). Amazon even has a blog post about that https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/8a7980f4-340c-...
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