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Re:Google listening in to your room shows importance of priv... by jonknee on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:21AM (#9739102)
Of course there is a way to disable this, it's in the settings with all the other settings.
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Re:Google listening in to your room shows importance of priv... by plorkyeran on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:40PM (#9739816)
Where? You can turn off voice-activated search, but that doesn't actually disable the extension.
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Re:Google listening in to your room shows importance of priv... by McGlockenshire on Thursday June 18, 2015 @01:26PM (#9740237)
The extension is only used by voice search. If voice search is disabled, the extension isn't used by anything.

A mountain is being made out of this molehill. If the extension was only downloaded at the time that the option was enabled by the user, nobody would care. Instead, they chose to have the extension always available and as a result people are having paranoid over-reactions.

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Re:Google listening in to your room shows importance of priv... by jonknee on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:56PM (#9739962)
It requires Native Client, turn it off and it can't function regardless of your other settings.
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