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Creeps
GrapheneOS, asap Pixel owners.
Thank me later.
Outside of the MASSIVE security concerns that this would present, this would be an immensely helpful feature for me.
Yeah, me too. But I find not getting really hammered achieves a similar thing. I’m working on that.
I saw this title and immediately said “fuck off” then clicked, and …glad to see OP sharing my immediate sentiment.
Do not want
Fuck you this is my idea
JFC, I don’t need tech tracking every goddamn word and fart.
Dumb phones are about to start trending more and more every day.
The Commodore Callback has perfect timing haha.
Really the only thing I’d miss with it is Google Wallet and Android Auto.
My only barrier to it is the T9 text input. I’m constantly writing notes on my phone. I would have a hard time if I had to T9 every note in.
I recently got rid of my smart watch when Samsung enshitified it and locked a bunch of features like weather updates behind an account, years after I bought the watch.
Now I have a dumb mechanical watch (quartz crystal, not spring winding) that will last years before I need to replace the battery. Everything it does, it does better than a smart watch. Not having to do the wrist flick gesture 1-3 times to check the time has been amazing. And I’m not constantly broadcasting Bluetooth anymore.
And graphene OS, maybe
Until Google decides to lock them out of any sort of verification process.
By then Motorola will have shipped the first round of “with Graphene pre installed” devices, assuming they stay with their plan.
Why
Creepy but this would be very helpful. Hopefully it’s on device instead of the cloud.
Wait for the release, see if it’s immediately available in Europe: if it is, it’s not just local anyway, this is Google… ಠ_ಠ
The people who called me crazy because “there’s no way your phone can be listening in on you all the time” are the same people who are going to be the most excited about this “feature”
How did these people expect “Hey Siri” / “Hey Google” to work?
Im a perfect world, as they claim, its a secondary system listening that isn’t recording or transmitting anything, and is meant to be low power. If it hears the wake up word, it wakes up the other mic and starts recording.
Thats how they claim the smart speakers work anyway.
This would be different.
“How they claim?” Is there no way to confirm that?
Doesn’t need to track you all the time to know exactly who you are and what you’re up to.
Continuously monitoring is such a waste of their resources, they already know everything about you, they just need to check in now and then to make sure you’re buying the correct t-shirts.
First setting change, turn off audio memory.
And somehow, it automatically gets re-enabled in a next update. Urgh…
Even if no one else could access it because it stayed on my device, I’m sure it’ll be used for categorizing “advertising cohort” stuff again.
It sucks having to be so skeptical. With my severe ADHD something like this would be enormously helpful for remembering conversations others I talk to remember just fine but I don’t.
Here’s the larger problem: other people will have this bullshit turned on and the microphones will receive the speech audio of everyone in their vicinity. It’s fully breaking consent to be recorded for others.
I do not care what they might say about “listening only to the owner” or whatever they will claim. If it’s recording with a microphone, then it will receive sound.
Now turn it into a black mirror episode where the corporation controls your memories
Can’t wait for the gaslighting marketing option. Google: “remember that you wanted to buy this?”
So what could be a really useful thing is now just a 24/7 surveilance device that will record everything, even when you have sex, when you talk about fantasies and so on.
I guarantee you that in no time the justice department will be interested in having access to all that
Minority report coming true daily
Funny thing is I already thought of two angles that might make people willingly use that:
- Sex coaches review your recent experiences and give you advice (good or bad, just like other life advice fields).
- Proof of consent so neither party can change the story after the fact. Though the proof won’t be at a scientific rigor level so it won’t help as much as people will hope, though it probably will clear up some less complex cases and complicate the shit out of others.
