Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Member when they sucked up everyone’s wifi passwords and the world was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • user91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    WiFi passwords? I think you mean SSIDs (wifi name).

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No they slurped up the pw’s too back in the day. Before WEP2? I forget.

      Hm. The intertubes tells me it was unencrypted data. tomshardware.com/…/google-wifi-street-cars-spy-la…

      Oh. Right. It collected unencrypted (i.e. email) passwords. Allll niiiice and legal, probably. socialmediatoday.com/…/google-says-collecting-dat…

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They calls are not recorded, are they? They are transcribed live.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s effectively the same thing.

    Whether or not the recording is kept or not, it’s using the same function.

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