Re:Your Phone Is Listening and It's Not Paranoia (2018)
by pmoriarty on Saturday February 09, 2019 @02:56PM
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"If your phone was always listening to you, it would need to either be always streaming the audio data back to home base"
Not necessarily. It could also send the data intermittently, in batches.
Even then, of course, there would be data usage. But you might not notice it. It might be hidden as part of the data use of various Google apps.
For instance, on my phone the "Google Play Store", "Android OS", "Google Services" and "Google" apps regularly send or receive many megabytes of data. What data they're sending is completely opaque to me. If it was recorded voice data, I'd never know.
Not necessarily. It could also send the data intermittently, in batches.
Even then, of course, there would be data usage. But you might not notice it. It might be hidden as part of the data use of various Google apps.
For instance, on my phone the "Google Play Store", "Android OS", "Google Services" and "Google" apps regularly send or receive many megabytes of data. What data they're sending is completely opaque to me. If it was recorded voice data, I'd never know.