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Re:Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network by pat64 on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:14PM (#44597011)
As someone who has built an app that detects calls and meetings, this isn’t as nefarious as you’re making it out to be.

You can detect patterns of hardware use that suggest you’re in a meeting without actually eavesdropping on an actual audio stream of any kind.

Basically is some app using the mic hardware for something?? Likely a meeting so.

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Re:Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network by shreddit on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:06PM (#44597591)
It’s not necessarily about what they doing, more like how they do things. They could at least tell me about it, like: Hey, we check whether you joined a meeting to provide you with our note taking assistant. Are you okay with that?

Don’t assume consent.

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