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Average person speaks 16k words per day. Android considers app background traffic excessive at 50MB / hour, which is 1GB / day. 10% of that rate to steer clear

Average person speaks 16k words per day. Android considers app background traffic excessive at 50MB / hour, which is 1GB / day. 10% of that rate to steer clear of raising red flags is 100MB / day, about 10kB for each word you speak. Rather trivial to steganograph a word in 10kB of background traffic. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-talk-more-than-men https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-talk-more-t... https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/vitals/bg-network-usage https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/vitals/bg-ne...

fsociety 5y ago
You have to calculate the amount of data provided from all users in this case + storage + processing power to do all of that. It’s probably more than you would expect too. The second point is why would a company do that? If the NSA or whomever wants to snoop on you, they’ll drop malware on your phone, subpoena your iCloud backups etc. not try to coerce a company to record people’s conversations when said company has no desire to do so.