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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or happened to be in the same place as someone who is looking up this type of thing (for example coworkers, or patrons of a park you visit often.)

In reality, the other data that can be gathered is more useful and easier to work with than trying to parse audio and video all the time.

[โ€“] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Plus you'd absolutely see that traffic on your network, especially if you lived in an area where you only get like 5Mb/s down.