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Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News (cordcuttersnews.com)

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[–] null@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 months ago

They are supposed to dump the excess data like anything that came before the activation command, but that's just a promise.

Where are they hiding that data locally, and how are they making it invisible in transit?