soloojos (Lemmy)People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you
Cosmic ClericWhat I want to know is why when I’m talking to my wife in the car about buying new shoes do I get a YouTube ad that evening about new shoes, when I never got that kind of ad before.
Are our phones listening to us while we talk in the car, and then ads are generated from that?
I’d really like to know the answer to that question.
Edit: fixed typo, shoes, not shows.
ichbinjasokreativIt most likely is. And if it’s not your phone, then it’s your car (assuming it has been built in the last few years)
TimeSquirrelIt most likely is
Instead of guessing, you people need to learn to use Wireshark and find out for yourself.
No, they don't just listen all the time with an open mic.
No, they don’t just listen all the time with an open mic and just send all audio to the cloud. Anyone in cybersecurity would definitely notice that and sound the alarm.
How would they though? The mic is already known to be always on, and what the servers/back-end are doing with the mic input data is not viewable/known by us on the outside. So how would those ‘cybersecurity’ people know?
If you're monitoring the traffic, and you start speaking, and you suddenly see pac6kers spewing out of a device every time you talk, that's a good indication. There's indirect methods to analyze it without necessarily being able to see the actual data.
Poking around the PCB with an oscilloscope to see electrical signals will probably be useful too.
If you’re monitoring the traffic, and you start speaking, and you suddenly see pac6kers spewing out of a device every time you talk, that’s a good indication. There’s indirect methods to analyze it without necessarily being able to see the actual data.
Its already established that the mic always hot, and that data is always being sent to the server.
What they do with the data is not seeable by us. That is the point being discussed, do they listen in to conversations and market off of that data to us.
Its already established that the mic always hot, and that data is always being sent to the server.
Tell me, how have you established this? What were your methods?
Its already established that the mic always hot, and that data is always being sent to the server.
Tell me, how have you established this? What were your methods?
By calling out for the Google assist, without having pushed any button first. It’s always listening for the activate/initiate key phrase.
That doesn't mean it's sending anything out through the network connection. The wake word is locally processed.
That doesn’t mean it’s sending anything out through the network connection. The wake word is locally processed.
Doesn’t mean it’s not, either.
This old article from Vice seems to have proven it, back in 2018.
This entire article is full of absolutely nothing but speculation and poor experimentation without proper knowledge, software, or equipment. No technical analysis at all. This person kind of has no clue and is taking ignorant shots in the dark. The "experiment" they ran sounds like something my mother would do and then get all bent out of shape and frantically call me about it.
I want the 5 minutes back I wasted reading that.
All of your hyperbole aside, if you’re worried about time wasted, you really shouldn’t be on the Internet.