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Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News(cordcuttersnews.com)

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steveman_ha@lemmy.world
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What if its not streaming? What if its just cached for future access, e.g. next time the user opens the app (and network traffic spikes anyways) maybe?

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Mossheart@lemmy.ca
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Or plugs in their phone at night, bypassing energy use concerns?

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Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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That’s possible too, and in general I’d think a foreground application currently in use alleviates most of the technical restrictions mentioned (read: why we never install FB).

But again we must assume some uncommon device privileges and we still haven’t solved the problem of background energy usage required to record and/or process a real time feed.

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