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Who could possibly imagine Google and Facebook doing something unethical, then lying about it?
Ignorant lemmings who don't understand there are billions and billions of dollars going into Sec ops research who would give both their nuts, ovaries, or whatever to make this discovery and can't be bothered to understand how the hardware chip powering the on word works.
If a device can start listening when you say, "Hey Siri," it can also start listening when you say other words.
So far, nobody has proven that any major phone apps are constantly listening and sending that data somewhere. That would be huge news if it ever happened.
For voice assistants, they're tuned to listen specifically for wake words like "hey Siri".
Let me ask, do you understand how the wake word chip works? Or are you just imagining an absurd edge case where a researcher some how gaps the bridged chips while having the device in person?
What do you believe is a viable attack vector that somehow nobody knows about?
Have you read the source code for the programming for those chips? Do you know exactly how they work?
Voice recognition is highly subjective, and some of you actually trust billionaire's companies enough to take their word that their devices will only listen for certain special words? Ridiculous.