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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by lukan on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:59AM (#41424339)
I think amazon solved this partly with hardcoding "alexa" as the wake up word. Meaning a specialized program monitors for "alexa" and ignores everything else and does not record.

Smart TVs might work similar, but I surely won't have anything like it in my home anyway.

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by sixothree on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:16AM (#41424805)
That would be reassuring if there was literally any way to verify this.
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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by doublerabbit on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:54AM (#41424684)
Partly yes, but the microphone is still on, you have no access to the code so how can you determine that a malicious actor isn't listening in?
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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by lukan on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:13AM (#41424786)
You won't know that with any other microphone either. Also any loud speaker to be precise (they can be used as microphones).

But like I said, I don't want to have those devices either and my smartphone has a removable battery ..

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