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Google Has Been Recording Your Voice

2016-06-03
okay Google is it legal to record a private conversation in the United States according to Wikipedia states that currently required that all parties consent to the recording include California Connecticut Florida Hawaii Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Montana Nevada New Hampshire Pennsylvania and Washington what's up guys Lew here back with another video this one is a bonus clip for today I got a phone call from Ryan he said dude you have to make this video because apparently very few people including myself know about the behavior of their phones mostly on Android phones essentially what's going on here is that there are circumstances in which your phone is recording your voice in your conversations potentially without you knowing it what launched into your browser and simply open up history google.com this is stuff you'd expect to see like history for your searches history for location data and all that goodness but the new one an emerging one is the voice related history over here on the left hand side voice and audio activity and as you can see here there's all these different events that have been recorded now in some cases it's working completely as you would expect as it's meant to function where it's it's creating a record for a search that you've done with voice to help with future recognition of my voice on my device but since you've got hot words things to trigger Google itself and the audio portion of it like okay Google you might have recordings like I am here that - what the guy I don't remember triggering those events I've gone through my various accounts now I'm finding these weird conversations I can't even recall that are recorded here historically whoa I don't know it makes me feel a little weird if you like me might be partially creeped out and want to remove some of the things that you've said that may have been recorded you can head over to history what I say history google comm what is a hundred years of this look like I don't know there you have it go check for yourself let me know in the comments what you've been saying that Google's been recording you don't need anything else he's just enjoying this goddamn french fries you want to join too why am I getting more quiet now you're pitched
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