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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by jimmySixDOF on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:10AM (#25726507)
I also use Lense for QR and like any typical app just installed through Play and launch normally.

Voice Assist is yet another privacy invasion vector imho, there are too many anecdotal first hand accounts of someone talking about fishing and suddenly getting banner adds for boat trips everywhere.

Re:Malware on My Android Phone by chopin24 on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:52AM (#25730543)
You don’t think it’s more likely that a person who talked about fishing also searched for fishing gear using Google? Or “Likes” fishing on Facebook? Or follows a fishing person on Twitter?

The technology and storage that would be required to parse non-device-directed speech doesn’t exist and wouldn’t be profitable since there are so many other reliable signals that are much cheaper.