Comment on Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In particular, Notion employees are saying that they are not listening to audio from your microphone, but just checking whether other processes in the system are using the microphone. There is a setting to disable this entirely.

  Copy-pasting from the thread:

  1. Notion records audio only during your use of the Meeting Notes feature. Here are the docs: www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes

  2. Notion desktop app has notifications about meetings that ask you if you want to use Meeting Notes, it recognizes this by detecting that your microphone is on (i.e. it does not listen to audio coming from your microphone). This feature is a setting in preferences btw, under Notifications > Desktop meeting detection notification.

  source: I work for Notion

  The Notion desktop app will observe if there is a process running on your computer that is actively using your microphone, such as Zoom.

  I’m using the latest version of the app and I don’t see this setting. I’ve also never seen these meeting notifications. It’s possible that you only get them if you have AI features enabled in your workspace, which I don’t. (I read a while ago that you can email support to ask them to disable it. I wrote a short email, and they replied within a day that it had been done, no questions or push-back.)

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Our PMs don't like making things opt-in.

    This reply from one of the employees sums it up.

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