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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69553151 Canada 06/20/2015 05:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 69559766 United States 06/20/2015 06:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the practice with what amounts to “we can do that Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69556850 Proof? Links? Typical GLP bullshit? |
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Resister User ID: 64514669 United States 06/20/2015 09:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evil bastards. "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. " - Thomas Jefferson in 1787 |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 51105992 United States 06/20/2015 09:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Most of your apps have unlimited permissions meaning they can video and audio record you look through your files and photos, call logs, ect and you accepted it. Your cell phone is a complete spy device that you pay for and legally say its okay to spy on you. |
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beeches User ID: 28167778 United States 06/20/2015 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the practice with what amounts to “we can do that Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69556850 I don't have it or want it but it is clear that ads appear for things we have discussed verbally. it happens. Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face – Thomas Sowell |
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-VonAmoR- User ID: 33714191 United States 06/20/2015 10:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only works if the microphone isn't disabled. LOL, now you know why they aren't labeled and are harder to find these days. Here is MY solution, I refuse to use cell phones. And if they want to listen from my computer, nothing special here in a family "public" room. When I leave the house, I have no electronics on me....zero...zip....none. |
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Narcissistic User ID: 62912967 United States 06/20/2015 10:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OK, since I got this new "Phablet" - the LG G Stylo - My friend came over and said he got a 2nd job delivering food - he left, was so proud of himself, and my phone had a Google Maps pulled up saying ETA 12 minutes to WORK Pizza Pros. Ok... odd... So then, yesterday, I'm killig a six pack on the beach with my buddy with the tailgate down listening to talk radio. We start talking about going to lawschool. My phone alerts, its twitter, it's a Periscope of some lawyer. Oh, it listens... it does.... and in weird ways... I can name a few... In the car, singing... "Sha la la la, you were, my brown eyed girl..." no music, just me singing outloud. Then it says "Get more of Van Morrison!" with an iHeart radio alert. Guess I sounded like the original. Creepy. I'm not going full out and putting a band-aide over the camera. Let them look at this body all day! Ha. Happy Sabbath! |
uscrusader1 User ID: 65794755 United States 06/20/2015 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In my custom android os I can use a simple command line to shut off unwanted processes. I went from +250 to 75, all the deleted ones were just eavesdropping and sending data out from apps and the OS. My runtime went from 4 days to 2 weeks on a charge. Encrypted email txting and voice phone, gotta dump chrome now, but there are better browsers. |
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KickAzCarlin User ID: 69146617 United States 06/20/2015 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Remind me of the weird moments when im talking with someone in my house about a product we need when the TV is on, say dogfood, and out of the blue a dog food commercial comes on. It's just a coincidence, right? Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. I am open to any and all sides of a story but beware,I have a biased opinion from life experiences just like you. |
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neocide User ID: 68551215 United States 06/20/2015 11:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Just something of note this article doesn't appear to be saying this is affecting ALL Chrome users. Only the ones that are running the experimental, open source version, called Chromium. Still... If you are born once, you die twice. If you are born twice, you die once. :neocide2: If you are born twice, you die once. If you are born once, you die twice. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41431974 United States 06/20/2015 11:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you have a "smart" tv like some models made by Samsung and others, they can also listen in via the tv. This was in mainstream news about a year or so ago. Basically, unless you live like a pioneer off the grid, there is virtually nothing that cannot be traced, tracked or linked to you if Uncle Sam wants to. |