Posted on 06/23/2015 12:58:49 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Don’t have a microphone.
Ding!
Laptops have a microphone but I use a desktop for gaming at home.
Open it up, clip the wire. Problem solved.
Go into Chrome and go to settings. You’ll see a setting for “Enable OK Google to do a voice search”.
Hence the microphone setting.
Well now. It is possible that the person who downloaded and installed the software gave permission to be recorded. Who reads and understands all those “I agree” forms from software companies, anyway?
But a person who is in the room with you and is recorded did not agree to be recorded. This feature would obviously violate the many states’ law requiring “2 party consent” for audio recording. I am not sure what kind of liability this opens them up to. Doubtful anyone at Google would be arrested. I wonder how much the damages in civil court could be though.
Man I hate google
the default install will still wiretap your room without your consent
That is a NSA requirement.
Yup, sounds like something Google would do.
Stasi Ping!
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
I don't have Chrome (and never shall now) and certainly don't know more about hardware and software than you do, AppyPappy, but isn't he trying to say a software switch is not sufficient?
Anyone who wants to listen in on what's going on in your home/office, and has the technical know-how, can hack in and change the switch unless you have no microphone (as you pointed out earlier) or have a physical on/off switch on the microphone.
“Don’t have a microphone.”
Don’t use google chrome or any of their products.
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G00gle Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth
the default install will still wiretap your room without your consent
That is a NSA requirement. .
Once again, Google shows that it is firmly ensconced in Obama’s alimentary canal.
I do not use google, on any device.
Privacy is dead.
Most of us carry a tracking device that we pay to have. It’s called a cell phone. (Your phone has to know about where you are for it to even work, and if you have GPS, it knows exactly where you are.) The mike on a phone can be turned on remotely without you even knowing.
Then there are “smart” TVs, gmae systems with cameras, motion trackers, and mikes, laptops with cameras and micropones, etc., etc.
Don’t tell that to Maxwell Smart and the Chief..
The Cone of Silence was impenetrable..
as was the american electorate in 2008 and 2012..
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