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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can say specifically that talking around devices, unless you've activated a voice assistant or something, does not transmit data anywhere. You can test this yourself if you've got a DNS server set up locally for the device being tested to hit, and sniff the traffic as well. This is not conjecture, its able to be tested pretty easily.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it it though? With closed source software we don't know what the software does.

What's stopping audio being recorded, stored locally, and only transmitted when other legitimate data is being transmitted? Hiding amongst the rest. Split up into random packets as to be obfuscated.

This used to be the talk of paranoid tin hat conspiracy theorists without any evidence but with the amount of tech scandals, Snowden leaks, etc it's no longer unfounded paranoia. Tech companies are nefarious, they will figure out nefarious means to get what they want.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is it it though? With closed source software we don’t know what the software does.

You can track network communication, yes.

What’s stopping audio being recorded, stored locally, and only transmitted when other legitimate data is being transmitted? Hiding amongst the rest. Split up into random packets as to be obfuscated.

Where it goes, and whether or not it sends. This can all be tracked, along with the size of the data being sent. Even when split. This is all manageable with readily available tools..

This used to be the talk of paranoid tin hat conspiracy theorists without any evidence but with the amount of tech scandals, Snowden leaks, etc it’s no longer unfounded paranoia. Tech companies are nefarious, they will figure out nefarious means to get what they want.

Audio is a terrible medium - especially when they can get it from your keyboard, your browser, the apps you have installed, the social networks you're signed into, so on and so forth.

And, as I said, you can investigate this yourself. I'm hardly the only person who has actually checked. I did it for work, but others have done the same.

Edit: Let me expand briefly on "audio is a terrible medium". There are issues with:

Background noise / audio quality
Speech patterns and accents
Homophones
Picking up context
Specialized words or uncommon words
Punctuation is hard to detect, which drastically changes meaning in a sentence

Audio is not worth it. Its too much effort for too little information.