Re:Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
by benaubin on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:54AM
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I work at Notion. We don't ship code that would let us listen in until users explicitly click start recording. We don't want to, we aren't in the business of selling data and this would be incredibly expensive - and destroy trust. We are cash flow positive so we can sustain our values for the long term. We build useful software and get paid by our users for it. It's pretty simple. Agree that operating systems should display prominent indicators when the microphone is in use.
Re:Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
by jxmesth on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:10AM
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Side note - why isn't E2E encryption a higher priority for Notion?
If you check Reddit and similar forums, it's been raised so many times by users.
Re:Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
by theshrike79 on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:44PM
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Please tell me which meeting note apps use underhanded methods to secretly record my conversations, just so that I can blacklist them company wide.
Source: I built the same listening infrastructure into other meeting note taking apps. Our team spoke at length about this security issue with Apple.