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  • Sojourner August 2, 2017 at 7:25pm

    I get all that but was linking a page on how to block or help block Google, etc from using their voice copy software.

  • Sojourner August 2, 2017 at 7:06pm

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    Created is created.. "they" should just get over it, lol

    Taygeta Star said:

    I hope they are tracking my actions.

    Maybe they will actually learn something

    The only reason anybody would care about that,  is if they are a cowardly lion. Then they will care a whole lot.

  • Sojourner August 2, 2017 at 6:53pm

    At one time I might have said the same things but having been hacked by online "friends" led to the most miserable few years in my life... "friends" doing what we all complain about the government doing, on a regular basis.

    I still agree about them perhaps learning something and know that others gain from truth being shared.  I hope one day to forgive the slimeballs that lied and hid and tormented so many... but it's not now.

    It has nothing to do with being cowardly.. its who in the hell do they think they are and what gives them the right... they are not omnipresent though that is what their dream is... be like God.. be their own.  

    Created is created.. get over it, lol

    Taygeta Star said:

    I hope they are tracking my actions.

    Maybe they will actually learn something

    The only reason anybody would care about that,  is if they are a cowardly lion. Then they will care a whole lot.

  • Sojourner August 2, 2017 at 1:29pm

    Just talking is enough to activate the recordings – but thankfully there's an easy way of hearing and deleting them

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    The easiest way to stop Google recording everything is to turn off the virtual assistant and never to use voice search. But that solution also gets at the central problem of much privacy and data use today – doing so cuts off one of the most useful things about having an Android phone or using Google search.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/googl...

  • Sojourner August 2, 2017 at 1:28pm

    In Orwell's 1984, the world is oppressed by those who are watching and listening to each person's every move. People are controlled by their fear and their complete lack of privacy. It seems like science fiction - a distant and dysfunctional dystopia designed to keep the masses in check. But just how far removed are we from this reality? "OK, Google - are you listening to me?" THEY'RE LISTENING TO YOU Google Now launched in 2012 as an 'intelligent personal assistant.' Five years on, and five years' worth of users voice recordings later, its intelligence appears to be growing. In comparison to the early days, users note its improved ability to recognize commands and voices. It's becoming much less robot and much more human. 

    Users of Google Now should be well acquainted with the voice recognition feature "OK Google." Like Apple's Siri, this feature allows users to set reminders, ask questions, call friends, and just about anything else a mobile phone is capable of doing. Users may NOT be aware that every time a voice is recorded by Google, Now it is stored and can be accessed and analyzed. We can assume these recordings are used to improve their voice recognition services, but can we be certain that our privacy is being respected? Should users have been made aware that their voices and searches were being stored and analyzed indefinitely? Who is listening and what if they end up knowing too much about us? https://history.google.com/history/audio At the address above you can access your voice recording history. You might be surprised at what you find. Furthermore, these are just the recordings made by Google Now. Perhaps this is just the tip of the iceberg? There's nothing to stop Google recording you all day every day, with the microphone, the front facing camera, the main camera, your keyboard input - they can record and analyze everything you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed if they want to. Your mobile phone, especially if it's an Android device, is a personal surveillance machine. By taking this little box of cameras and microphones with you everywhere you go, you're essentially allowing Google to monitor everything you do. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that. Could you repeat that?" It's been 5 years since its launch, who knows how much more advanced it will be 5 years from now? Maybe it will be able to tell what you're thinking or finish your sentences for you. Perhaps if we get to that stage, like in 1984, people will be thinking twice about whether or not the all-hearing ear of Google is such a good thing. But by then, it might be too late to go back! READ MORE: http://www.disclose.tv/news/google_quietly_records_everything_you_s...

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