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"hotword" detection, is this basically sniffing encrypted data for words the authorities don't want you to speak? Seems counterproductive to their stated aim o

• xg15 1mo ago
  Not even just by the authorities. This sounds like the wet dream of Google itself or any other data mining companies. You can just ship the most sensitive data around and extract signals to your hearts content - and even if it would be protected by law, you're good because hey, it's always encrypted, and the signals, ad assignments and profile markers are encrypted too! This is what I don't like about all this "I'm not touching you" privacy tech, also including the new trend of nonvoluntary on-device processing. They pretend "privacy" was a primary goal of it's own, completely detached from any reasons why you would want to have it. Then they go on gloriously holding up the flag of privacy, while at the same time enabling all the things that you wanted to have privacy against in the first place.
  • HlessClaudesman 1mo ago
    And if they can detect "words", surely a determined attacker can reconstruct the whole thing.
• hyusap 1mo ago
  from what I understand, only the holder of the private key would be able to see if a hotword was detected or not. even if Google ran hotword detection over your data, they’d only get a encrypted output on if the hotword was detected or not