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[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t they just pass a law to make all that illegal spying legal, like that changes anything? Seems obvious if your phone is listening in a device like this will be used no matter what setting you use. I remember Amazon being caught leaving their mics on and also Facebook sending conversations to 3rd parties for transcribing. And this is just a small fraction of the shit we know about.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was for government spying, not private.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought private spied for government? Or government did it anyway

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was just expanding what the federal government is allowed to do without a warrant, but you're right in that they were probably already doing it.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So how are they doing it if the mic is supposedly turned off to google and on to spying?

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

They're not, but they are capturing all of your web traffic.