A British consumer group found that three air fryers it tested all wanted to “record audio on the user’s phone, for no specified reason”. Read it at @TechRadar. #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #China #Tech Technology https://flip.it/t_rVnj

  • @Squizzy
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    517 hours ago

    Presumably this is an app? Why do you need this app? Air fryers are such a fad, 20 years ago it was those three tiered steamers.

  • snooggums
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    318 hours ago

    My guess is the 'legitimate reason is for voice activation and a bunch of companies are just adding that to everything to justify harvesting more data.

    • @[email protected]
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      316 hours ago

      Why do we need to guess? It’s not that difficult to check, but I guess that would require actual journalism.