• Buffalox
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    20 hours ago

    It has to be recording at least for temporary storage to “observe” the surroundings as exemplified.
    Usually the way Google does that is to use a centralized service to treat the data, that means these recordings are also sent to a server.

    This creates immense surveillance potential, and in EU USA and American companies are not considered safe to handle or store such data.

    Even if the recording is deleted seconds after, it is still recording, and “someone” could decide to store it permanently based on the content. For instance based on face recognition.

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      18 hours ago

      People don’t get it.

      FBI, CIA, DHS, can access your smart TV, while “off” and use the speakers as microphones to listen to you.

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        18 hours ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised. Same on phones tablets laptops etc.

      • Vesipeto Vetehinen@lethallava.land
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        18 hours ago

        @[email protected] I’m not saying these companies wouldn’t want to have it constantly on if they could though, Meta already made a video where they showed that it is exactly what they’d like to do at some point in the future if the hardware was able to.