{"id":34826,"date":"2026-01-27T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34826"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:20:37","slug":"reminder-your-phone-is-not-listening-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/27\/reminder-your-phone-is-not-listening-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Your Phone Is Not Listening To You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g38jv8zzwo\" target=\"_new\">All the phones (and &#8220;smart&#8221; devices) are listening to you<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google has agreed to pay $68m (\u00a351m) to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly listened to people&#8217;s private conversations through their phones.<\/p>\n<p>Users accused Google Assistant &#8211; a virtual assistant present on many Android devices &#8211; of recording private conversations after it was inadvertently triggered on their devices.<\/p>\n<p>They claimed the recordings were then shared with advertisers in order to send them targeted advertising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among other things.  The recordings were probably parsed and scored in various ways and were used to train various LLMs as well.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via Pixy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/418270.php\" target=\"_new\">Daily Tech News<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the phones (and &#8220;smart&#8221; devices) are listening to you: Google has agreed to pay $68m (\u00a351m) to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly listened to people&#8217;s private conversations through their phones. Users accused Google Assistant &#8211; a virtual assistant present on many Android devices &#8211; of recording private conversations after it was inadvertently triggered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34829,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826\/revisions\/34829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}