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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by nicce on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:30AM (#28222585)
It is not conspiracy. There is literally an option on your Google account to stop using mic for collecting data. On older accounts, it is enabled by default.
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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by NationalPark on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:41AM (#28222820)
Are you referring to the voice assistant telemetry? That's not passively recorded according to Google, but if you have evidence to the contrary I can think of a number of news outlets (and prosecutors in 2 party consent states) that would love to have it.
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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by nicce on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:48AM (#28222944)
The option was there before voice assistant existed in 2013 or something. That is when I figured it out myself. I don't know how the description of that is changed during the years.
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