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

• ouch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I highly doubt this kind of processing is legal in the EU without both parties consenting.

  In Finland recording calls and meetings you participate in is legal, without need to give notice or ask for consent. And necessary, because spoken contracts are as valid as written ones, and you need to be able to prove the existence of such contract.

  I haven’t heard of any EU countries where call recording would not be legal. Would be interesting to hear from people who live in EU.

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• Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As is stated, the call is processed locally in the user’s device. If that holds true, there is no recording and no third party processing going on. Your point does not make sense.

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  • gopher@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The person owning the phone is the processor of the data in this case. That still requires consent from the data subject per gdpr.

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    • Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, that’s ridiculous.

      This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: […] © by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;

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      • gopher@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair, I was not aware of that exception. It does seem to cover this case, assuming Google is actually not sending any data outside of the phone, use it for further training etc.

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