Lawsuits say Siri and Google are listening, even when they’re not supposed to

washingtonpost.com

9 pointsabdusm3 comments

Of course they are. How would they know you said "hey Google/Siri" otherwise?

Exactly. For the life of me, I can't see how some people are so logically impaired that they couldn't work that out for themselves.

But then again, my brother bought a mobile phone but kept it switched off unless he wanted to talk to somebody.

My opinion, by default voice assistants should be push-to-talk and allow the user to opt in for voice activation. Secure and private by default.