As we guessed, it seems that despite Google saying they were not making recordings of people's voices and mining them for advertisers, they were doing exactly that.

As we guessed, it seems that despite Google saying they were not making recordings of people's voices and mining them for advertisers, they were doing exactly that.

If it was a colleague caught wiretapping the workplace, we'd have them sacked and never speak to nor trust them again. In the case of Google, it's even more personal.

No Google service is free. We are the terrain they extract from. We always pay.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-settlement-68-million/

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@JulianOliver Just think of all the valuable data they collected for a measly $68 million. That's pocket change to them.

@analogfusion 100%. They would have put it aside. Nothing a barrage of marketing, of smiling homes and workplaces living their best possible lives through Google, can't fix. It's dark.

@analogfusion The only way forward is ground-up, community led and supported, migration off their platform surface and onto ethical alternatives.

(Based on your profile, I see you know this, just sounding it out for the thread)