Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense

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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”.

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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”.

J Thoendell
9:11 AM Jun 18 2015

Stashed in: Privacy does not exist., Google FAIL

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Geez.

Adam Rifkin
12:10 PM Jun 18 2015

Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense

J Thoendell stashed this in Tech

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