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Google is recording your voice while you browse the internet 2
#23629284 - 09/09/16 02:46 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html
To view your recordings, go here and click "Voice & Audio": https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa&utm_source=help https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa&utm_source=help&product=29
Sure enough, I had recordings of my voice on there. I went through and deleted them one by one. I'm sure they still keep it uploaded on some back server somewhere though.
Edit: Wowwwww this is really scary. So, most of the voice recordings that I found were of me using the voice search or voice text feature. But I even found one recording of me talking to somebody in the background, I was clearly in a busy area and was not even using my phone at this time.
What the hell?!?!?
Edited by Crystal G (09/09/16 03:28 PM)
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G] 2
#23629298 - 09/09/16 02:49 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Not surprised. Really typical shit from a google feature.
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629302 - 09/09/16 02:50 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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All I have up is my random google searches How do they get the voice recordings?
-------------------- Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G] 2
#23629310 - 09/09/16 02:51 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wowwwww this is really scary.
So, most of the voice recordings that I found were of me using the voice search or voice text feature.
But I even found one recording of me talking to somebody in the background, I was clearly in a busy area and was not even using my phone at this time.
What the hell?!?!?
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: musiclover420]
#23629313 - 09/09/16 02:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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musiclover420 said: All I have up is my random google searches How do they get the voice recordings?
Under My Google activity, you should see something that says "Voice & Audio," if you click on that it expands a shitload of voice clips of you.
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: musiclover420]
#23629315 - 09/09/16 02:54 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I apparently have no results
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G] 1
#23629316 - 09/09/16 02:54 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Electric Wizard21]
#23629322 - 09/09/16 02:55 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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There is a delete all activity option. No need to go one by one really.
Creepy, but makes sense with how Android integration works with everything.
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629328 - 09/09/16 02:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I followed one of your links that did an audio search but nothing came up, I will double check though. I never use voice searches so that could be why.
Seems very possible your phone was just accidentally doing voice command stuff in your pocket when it picked up the recording of you talking randomly.
-------------------- Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: pirate-blues]
#23629329 - 09/09/16 02:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Google is evil. Probs recording this sentence.
-------------------- I'm sick of all you hypocrites Holding me at bay And I don't need your sympathy To get me through the day Seasons change and so can I Hold on boy, no time to cry Untie these strings, I'm climbing down I won't let them push me away
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629360 - 09/09/16 03:05 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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what if you do not have an acct? Its asking me to register, they do not recognise my email acct
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: musiclover420]
#23629412 - 09/09/16 03:20 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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perikleous said: what if you do not have an acct? Its asking me to register, they do not recognise my email acct
I'm not sure? If you don't have an account, I don't think you will be able to see what they have on your profile.
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musiclover420 said: I followed one of your links that did an audio search but nothing came up, I will double check though. I never use voice searches so that could be why.
Seems very possible your phone was just accidentally doing voice command stuff in your pocket when it picked up the recording of you talking randomly.
Yeah, that's probably it. I've only found a couple instances of me talking in the background.
In one, I can't clearly hear what I'm saying, sounds like I'm talking to somebody at a party or a bar somewhere saying "You're my favorite (rapper?)" (the last word I can't make out, but that's what it sounds like I'm saying), and somebody who sounds like my boyfriend (it might be him actually) and he's going "I am? Awww" and then it cuts off.
There's another one where I wasn't speaking into the phone. It sounds like I'm in a quiet place like a house or something, and I'm having an argument of some kind. I kind of have a tone in my voice and I'm saying "The reason has nothing to do with you, it's cause I'm dealing with my own shit right now and" and it cuts off right there. I don't hear anybody else in the background except me.
What's really odd though, is that I have hundreds of audio clips of my voice feature simply turning on, you hear the beep, and then that's it, it cuts off almost immediately after. It does this every single month. The sound cuts off right after the beep.
But in many of these clips, I can briefly hear static in the background that sounds to me like I'm at a busy place like a grocery store or work or a bar or something. It's unlikely that I would have ever used the voice feature in such a noisy place. So I don't know if Google or my phone is automatically setting off the voice feature on my phone randomly at times and getting random recordings or not.
Edited by Crystal G (09/09/16 03:28 PM)
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629422 - 09/09/16 03:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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didnt have anything there, thank god. fuck that shit, thanks CG
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: memes] 1
#23629449 - 09/09/16 03:34 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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tbh I'm more freaked out by the activity log. If someone manages to get your gmail password and you don't use a VPN/proxy then they can pretty much figure out where you are right then if you're signed into gmail on your phone.
Really creepy.
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: pirate-blues]
#23629516 - 09/09/16 03:54 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629573 - 09/09/16 04:12 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Maybe the hundreds of short ones are from your phone getting triggered into audio mode then shutting off when there are no voice commands.
I have seen smart phones do stuff like that, hundreds seems a bit much but if its over a long period of time that could be the case.
Some phones turn on in pockets all the time. I have only had ones that would take pocket pics though
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Re: Google is recording you while you browse the internet [Re: musiclover420] 2
#23629596 - 09/09/16 04:17 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just listened to myself wanking amd there are hundreds of recordings of it.
-------------------- I'm sick of all you hypocrites Holding me at bay And I don't need your sympathy To get me through the day Seasons change and so can I Hold on boy, no time to cry Untie these strings, I'm climbing down I won't let them push me away
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Re: Google is recording your voice while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629609 - 09/09/16 04:20 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I believe it. Call me paranoid but I don't believe in synching and I most certainly do not allow google updates and I try to take out as much bloatware on my device as possible. I don't believe in the Messenger app either.
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Re: Google is recording your voice while you browse the internet [Re: Crystal G]
#23629622 - 09/09/16 04:23 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yep. I checked. I dont have any activity and its because Im smart enough to not allow synching of any type.
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Re: Google is recording your voice while you browse the internet [Re: PartoftheSource]
#23629627 - 09/09/16 04:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Who needs microchips when everyone has a phone!
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