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The FBI has been doing this for 15 years with cars and OnStar. They will do this with smart speakers once enough people have them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/15/polic...

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2006: The FBI admits for the first time to turning a dumb phone into a microphone to listen in on a some New York mafia guys conversations at a restaurant in the early days even before smartphones made it even easier to do so. Which they publicly used to convict them (meaning it was probably an old tactic by then):

> The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdr...

And we can't reign it in cause terrorism!

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