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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by tadzik_ on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:43AM (#20403029)
> they're always listening in exactly the same fashion. This is how always-on "Hey Siri" or "Okay Google" works

Afaik it is not, actually. The devices are taught to recognize the wakeup words (like "ok google") completely offline, and only the stuff recorded afterwards gets uploaded to the cloud of contractors.

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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by DanHulton on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:28PM (#20403507)
The phones listen in the same fashion as the in-home devices, is what I mean - they both work on the wakeup words. So if you're mistrustful of the in-home devices, you should be petrified of your morning commute.
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Re:Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations by tadzik_ on Saturday July 13, 2019 @08:20AM (#20427697)
AIUI the whole point of this drama is that a lot of these conversations were obviously "random", as in: not triggered by the wakeup words.
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