Google CAUGHT Recording Your Private Conversations! - What You Need To Know!
In this video, I report on the recent uncovering of evidence that shows Google is recording your private conversations and storing them.
The tech giant is using millions of androids to collect information. It works a bit like Apple's Siri. If you're signed into Gmail or a Google account and you say "Okay, Google." around your phone, it will begin recording. But Google is a little hard at hearing, so you can actually just say "okay" around your phone and it will start recording.
The recordings last 10-20 seconds and stores on Google history as well as sends the recordings to Google itself.
The recordings can pick up very private conversations that can be embarrassing to most people.
It regularly turns on the recorder as people go about their daily business. A library of your deepest, darkest secrets can be logged in some Google database!
This isn't just on your phones though. This is happening through your laptop as well!
Courtesy: The Sun.
Now we all know Google is listening to us, it's not particularly surprising. Vault 7 by Wikileaks showed that even further, but this is simply more evidence of the incremental infringement of privacy we deal with on a daily basis as surveillance has become a new normal in this technocratic age.
Interestingly, unlike Siri, the private recordings can actually be accessed by you! You can hear your own secretly recorded private conversations!
There are also ways to disable these settings temporarily (though they turn back on by themselves).
You can find out how to listen to the recordings and pause them in this video!
Big Brother is watching you, and recording you, compiling your darkest secrets on a massive server alongside the NSA (likely in collaboration) and in the future, who knows what it may be used for.
I just looked up my history. Very creepy. I also notice that anything that gets posted on Google is very hard to remove. I haven't figured out how to take any of my pictures down.
I think I'm going to start using DuckDuckgo as much as possible. Their broswer says it doesn't track you. I added their plugin for Firefox and it tells you some of the sites that are trying to track you as you browse. Google is always number 1 of course. I don't know if I trust any of these sites though. They know exactly who we are and what we're up to. Big brother is watching.
I'm with you on that, it's scary! Hopefully the blockchain can fix this!
I think they call what I'm about to say "indoctrination." Lol; though not really funny at all!!!! However, truth is, the word 'privacy' is near extinction. Millennials I know are far more care-free about what's recorded in chat, picture-sharing sites, etc.
You can't walk anywhere without a camera, personal or security, trained on your person. When I say anywhere, I mean that literally. So, what to do, what to do?....Crawling under a rock is not really an option.
Peace.
Please allow me to request that we keep those going through the devastation of TS Harvey in our prayers.
This is actually very disturbing. Google is in bed with the government and can easily send that info to the NSA, FBI, CIA on demand. How do we now Google doesn't remit the data they collect to the government periodically. This is a huge violation of our privacy.
I totally agree, and they don't admit whether or not they pass the info on.
good post.I resteem your post
Nice sharing...
Not surprising at all, google makes it so difficult to find settings related to privacy and as you mentioned it is only temporary tweaks which are able to be done, never permanent! We certainly need a decentralized solution and operating systems for phones.
@joshsigurdson How soon are they going to die of boredom. Recording the boring lives of people in the world.
#richardstallmanwasright
We have to face the fact that privacy doesn't exist anymore. 🤦♀️
I checked my settings as you describe and I had everything switched off already. I'm apparently so paranoid, I forget what paranoid measures I've already taken... LOL I will resteem though.. :)
Play around in the account settings long enough and you find the creepiest things, such as the fact that Google knows where you go whenever you have your device on you. It does make sense, given how high quality the real-time traffic directions are when using Google Maps to navigate.
If everyone with a Google account is tracked while in motion, as well as Google knowing the likely destinations of everyone on the road based on a combination of active navigation and your personal likely destinations by time of day, then Google knows very well what the flow of traffic is likely to be.