All the phones (and “smart” devices) are listening to you:
Google has agreed to pay $68m (£51m) to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly listened to people’s private conversations through their phones.
Users accused Google Assistant – a virtual assistant present on many Android devices – of recording private conversations after it was inadvertently triggered on their devices.
They claimed the recordings were then shared with advertisers in order to send them targeted advertising.
Among other things. The recordings were probably parsed and scored in various ways and were used to train various LLMs as well.
(Link via Pixy’s Daily Tech News today.
