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>Can we be absolutely certain that everything before “Ok, Google” or “Alexa” isn’t being recorded, by the companies or by back doors created by the security ser
by craftyguy 9y ago
>Can we be absolutely certain that everything before “Ok, Google” or “Alexa” isn’t being recorded, by the companies or by back doors created by the security services?
It's all proprietary, so the answer is: no.
- wepple 9y agoCorrection: it’s all proprietary, so the answer is: yes; you could reverse engineer firmware
- twblalock 9y agoThat won't help you find out if Amazon is storing the recordings in a datacenter somewhere.
- ehsankia 9y agoThe question here is if the data is being sent back at all or not. If you can show that either Google or Amazon is saying voice data outside of the command after the hotword, you already have yourself a huge scandal. No voice data without hotword should ever even leave the device.
- echosmith 9y agoAmazon releases the on-device source code I believe: Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201626480 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... I personally haven't gone through it, but someone more interested can take a stab at it.