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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing (newatlas.com)

submitted 1 day ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

The official position is it has an enclave that locally listens only for the wake-word, and when it hears that, it activates the audio connection to the cloud.