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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Per that article, it only happens when it thinks it's been activated, and only when you opt in. Not much of a bombshell.

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Emphasis on "when it thinks". Not much point to a privacy control that the device can just ignore for unspecified reasons, and they had 150+ instances of that occurring in this data set.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

~150 inadvertent activations is pretty low for the number of devices times however many years it spans.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago

From the linked article

But VRT NWS said that 153 of the 1,000 recordings it listened to "were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command 'OK Google' was clearly not given."

15% of the recordings these reporters listened to were "inadvertant." I'd say that's pretty high.