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Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals (news.sky.com)
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Google and Meta are monitoring the conversations using the device's microphone

I've heard this claim many times for decades but never seen any legitimate evidence.

The only evidence I've seen is accidental recordings from digital "assistants" who mishear the wake phrase. But those only last a couple seconds. Meta has no such assistant.

In addition, Apple and Google both have had mic indicators for when the mic is on and listening for a long time so they'd have to somehow compromise the operating system as well.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago

To add to this, there's evidence disproving that Apple and Google are listening 24/7. An article goes over how a phone uses way more power when doing an "OK Google/Hey Siri” request than simply scrolling through Meta/Twitter/Snapchat/etc. Basically it'd take a shit ton of noticeable battery power to constantly be listening to people and phoning home, so they don't. What they did do instead was take secret screenshots and send them to 3rd party sources.

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To my surprise nobody delved into “open source” android code to find if any traces.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why are you using quotations marks? On a serious note, Google's bloat isn't inherent to android, their stuff is added on top as apps and services.