Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds.

madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To heat you say “Hey Google” it has to listen to everything you say, all the time. While they pinky-promise they aren’t doing anything with all the voice data they’re getting while listening, dobyou trust them?

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  • leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While this is true, it’s not difficult to verify. You can inspect the network traffic through your router from that device and see whether it’s communicating more often or with larger data packets while you’re talking near but not to it.

    That could be obfuscated with a powerful enough device that’s able to maintain the user profile locally and by sending the full profile each time, or by trickling the information out bit by bit as part of a regular heartbeat traffic, but that would require more expensive hardware and would eat up a lot more bandwidth.

    Not impossible, but not undetectable either. I’m willing to bet that studies have been done.

    Skepticism is good but without thinking through it, experimenting, or doing research to back it up it’s just paranoia. Conversely you could say my trust that others would have looked into it is naive.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      studies were done and found similar to what you’re saying.

      also the secret listening does not comport with any of the business side of profile marketing, either. So it would have to be an incredibly well kept secret on top of all of that.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good point, but given that I don’t say anything in my bed room (I live alone, and I don’t date), I wish it good luck hearing anything.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  eierkoeken

  But why tho? That’s such a random thing to trigger on. Is it anywhere near “hey google” in Dutch or something?

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it kinda sounds like it. The eier kind of sounds like hey, and koeken sounds a bit like Google.

    I’ve had a few other accidental activations, that I couldn’t explain that easily, even from podcasts, that I decided that I didn’t need it. But in Android Auto I couldn’t find to option to turn off the activation phrase, so instead I turned it off completely.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, pronunciation must be different than I expected. In my head I did “eye-er” like in German, but I looked up Dutch and apparently that’s “ey-er” there, so way closer to “hey.”

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