Was I hallucinating? Totally OT, perhaps relevant

[Roger Eller]

I frequently get targeted ads after just having off-line conversations.
They ARE listening!


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I was at Google for meetings last week, some of which was with the Google
> Home and also Assistant teams. They have the same need as Siri, and I
> imagine that they solve the problem in the same way. For Google, they are
> always listening for “ok google”, and Apple are listening for “hey Siri”.
> It’s only a two second buffer though, that is constantly overwriting
> itself. If you could steal someone’s device and freeze all electrons in it
> so you could scrape for sound data, you probably would only get the sound
> of you picking the person’s pocket.
>
> If the trigger words are detected, the next bit of sound is uploaded to be
> analyzed. That happens for all devices within hearing, and online all of
> the recordings are considered at the same time. The reply is usually sent
> to the device that was closest to the user at the time. The recording is
> kept in your history, so you can go back and listen to it to figure out why
> it might have been misinterpreted. This is the page you can go to listen to
> yourself:
>
> https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=29
>
>
>
> > On Nov 14, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > If Apple was doing data collection via Siri always on and feeding the
> data to Amazon, that would be a huge news story. Americans would FREAK OUT!
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> >> On Nov 10, 2017, at 19:18 , Kay C Lan via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have an iPhone with Siri usually turned Off, but
> >> after I recently upgraded to iOS11 I hadn't picked up that Siri had
> >> been turned On - it's now back Off.
> >>
> >> I'd like to think it was coincidence... but how many of you have EVER
> >> seen an online advert for a mattress specifically for station wagons?
> >
>
>
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