Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations.

Aral Balkan

Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/115998148761323898 https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/115998148761323898

Cade

@aral whenever I turn off my Android TV, it turns itself back on after a few minutes and then turns off again a minute or two later. I presume it is listening because why else turn back on? We don't converse during the "restart" - just observe some moments of quiet reflection on the state of the world.

I would not know of the restart interval, except for the unusual way my TV audio is configured - instead of an HDMI connection to a soundbar, I have a bluetooth connection to a separate music system. When the bluetooth connection is made, the sound system announces the connection (not the TV).

Tuchowski

@aral I'm picking up your sarcasm
@nemo

Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️

@aral

big brain 🧠: change the “m” to a “b”

Galaxy brain 🧠: make it an antitrust violation for the advertising company to also sell hardware that can eavesdrop on you in order to show you more ads