Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
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Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
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Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#2Type this into your Chrome address bar to see the extension status: chrome://voicesearch/
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#3Type this into your Chrome address bar to see the extension status: chrome://voicesearch/
NaCl Enabled Yes
Microphone Yes
Audio Capture Allowed Yes
Current Language en-US
Hotword Previous Language en-US
Hotword Search Enabled No
Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No
Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No
What now?
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#4This is pretty funny. He complains that Chromium managed to "bypass this audit-then-build process", by downloading stuff afterwards, while ignoring that this happening already shows that the audit process is completely useless since it failed to recognize and reject the code that would do this.
There's a TSA joke somewhere in this.
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#5Type this into your Chrome address bar to see the extension status: chrome://voicesearch/
NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?
If you're running Chromium: Re-install with the opt-out flag.
If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#6Type this into your Chrome address bar to see the extension status: chrome://voicesearch/
NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?
Go to chrome://settings/
Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#7if you goto chrome://settings/content it appears you can disable mic + camera access for all pages
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#8I wonder if European Commission would be interested in adding this to their investigation, couple of hundred million dollars should be enough penalty for violating users privacy.
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?
Go to chrome://settings/ Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.
Which is no longer an option.
Re: Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No What now?
Go to chrome://settings/ Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.
So I have Chrome installed (although I don't use it as my primary) and I checked...
NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes
In Settings my 'Ok Google' is (and was) unchecked. What gives?