Is Active Listening Legal?
We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal? The short answer is: yes. It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included.
So what were you saying?
Did you read the article? No, you did not.
According to the company this is all from regular 3rd party stuff. Being legal or not is beside the point when you are not actually doing something.
You’re argument is based on what a marketing company put in their marketing.
Read the article, with clarifications from the company
ETA : if this were true I would either see it in my firewall logs, or it would blow through my data cap in a week. Surveillance capitalism is bullshit, this is just a grift.
You’re argument is based on what a marketing company put in their marketing.
But your response is
with clarifications from the company
So what the company says isn’t good enough… Except when it’s in your favor? You realize that both statement are “from the company”.
Fight as long as you want, when they were called out on it they backed off. The technical aspects of this are not trivial, nor is the amount of data needed as anyone who has had an Alexa or similar spyware in their house will tell you.
Like I said
if this were true I would either see it in my firewall logs, or it would blow through my data cap in a week.
