Timeline for Do advertisers listen as we talk?
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| Jul 28, 2020 at 9:03 | comment | added | Esa Jokinen | Or what if your African grey parrot activated Google & Alexa during your confidential conversation. | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 8:02 | comment | added | Douwe | And for instance this: "Thus all of these “smart” devices that can listen are very carefully managed to ensure that when you shout “Alexa…” or “Hey Siri…” then — and only then — do they act on the sounds around you." is also objectively false. | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 8:00 | comment | added | Douwe | The point is, that the whole "listening in to users would ruin a companies reputation" argument sounds reassuring, but is simply and objectively false. So any argument based on that assumption must therefore also be false. By putting "devices are not listening to you" in bold your basically propagating a lie. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 17:03 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Adding details on developers listening into audio for development and debugging versus acting on that data.
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | Giacomo1968 | @Douwe Will update my answer to address this, but contractors listening in on data to fix and enhance functionality is completely different than companies then harnessing overheard conversations to deliver ads. 100% not the same. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Douwe | "Can you imagine if it could be proven that Google, Amazon and Apple and possibly others were indeed listening in on users?" They do this all the time and nobody bats an eye. This is just one of many, many articles on the isssue | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 13:08 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I mentioned Alexa but not Amazon; whoops.
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 2:31 | history | answered | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |