Technology

Interesting how the majority of the comments refer to you being monitored on your own phone, ignoring that you will be monitored on everyone else's phone as well.

Reason n+1 for me being thankful for switching to GrapheneOS.

The people who called me crazy because "there's no way your phone can be listening in on you all the time" are the same people who are going to be the most excited about this "feature"

Microsoft introduces "Recall" spyware the world goes mad, Google and Apple do something similar and it's mostly silence.

I'm not defending Microsoft but it just shows the double standards between the trust in these corporations.

Constant surveillance 😡

Audio memories 😍

This will be quite illegal in all countries and states that require 2 party consent at minimum.

Incoming Google lawsuits in 3, 2, 1.

If a song isn’t recognized, a short digital fingerprint may be sent to Google to securely search the cloud. Background conversations and audio are never sent to Google.

And, of course, Google will honor this and any other setting, as always, right? Right?

Welcome to your "I only buy vintage tech" era.

Mine started when 3.5 mm audio jacks started disappearing. We all draw a line.

Motorola needs to release those GrapheneOS compatible phones now 💀

OK, how do you disable it permanently? Besides Graphene or mobile Linux?

GrapheneOS, asap Pixel owners.

Thank me later.

I saw this title and immediately said "fuck off" then clicked, and ..glad to see OP sharing my immediate sentiment.

Because all of their customers were clamoring for such a "feature"?

Of course, it will have the option of being "turned off".

I mean, we've all long suspected our phones are listening to us anyway, why not make it into a "feature".

JFC, I don't need tech tracking every goddamn word and fart.

Honestly, I thought they already did that.

One of my motivations for becoming more privacy minded, was the amount of times a subject of conversation was delivered through an algorithm later.

It was creepy, talk about hose pipes> receive hosepipe content/ads.

Fuck you Pichai you fucking banchode.

Fucking yikes

Do not want

I already get "random" ads for things that were only part of a verbal conversation that happened to be near the phone.

What I want is a physical kill switch for the mic and camera, less surveillance not more.

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” — Mario Savio, 1964

Dumb phones are about to start trending more and more every day.

The internet is becoming a hostile place, filled with predators and hazards, a privilege only of the wealthy, the powerful and their slaves, was not on my bingo card for things I'd live through. I feel I may have no choice but to genuinely disconnect from all of it in my private life.

This is really about training AI, isn’t it. They’ve tapped nearly all the sources of human text output already, so now they want to create as much more of it as possible, as quickly as possible. They will tap into conversations and use it as a new data source, mark my words.

This would be such a cool thing, too bad it will only be used to scrape our data in order to sell us more ads. There are far too many technologies and concepts that have been ruined already due to bloody greed.

Any soviet officials still alive must be going crazy: "wait, they actually pay to be surveilled???"

Illegal in Germany. You may not record conversations, if you try to enter something like that as evidence you'll get punished as well.

I suspect there are many countries with laws like that, and if your phone actually disables the feature when you enter them or just let's you hang to dry...

Um, oh fuck no.

The reams of personally-identifiable information that will leak is insane.

We're not allowed to have Siri and Alexa listening when we're working, lest a stray word on a phone call from the home office risks a privacy breach.

Even if no one else could access it because it stayed on my device, I'm sure it'll be used for categorizing "advertising cohort" stuff again.

It sucks having to be so skeptical. With my severe ADHD something like this would be enormously helpful for remembering conversations others I talk to remember just fine but I don't.

So what could be a really useful thing is now just a 24/7 surveilance device that will record everything, even when you have sex, when you talk about fantasies and so on.

I guarantee you that in no time the justice department will be interested in having access to all that

Thank god I have Graphene.

I love the idea. Having a sortable, searchable list of everything that hits my plate day to day would be an awesome boon, I simply don't want anyone else to have that data :(