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    GOT CHROME? GOOGLE JUST SILENTLY DOWNLOADED THIS ONTO YOUR COMPUTER
    Got Chrome? Google Just Silently Downloaded This Onto Your Computer
    June 21, 2015 - Don’t Be Evil” – Google

    On June 17th, Google did not announce (the news broke) that the DARPA affiliated corporation has been silently downloading audio listeners onto every computer that has Chrome.

    This effectively means that Google sees your privacy as piddly-squat, which does not necessarily come off as a surprise, when one considers Google’s censorship of We Are Change – this very organization as nothing. The website Private Internet Access‘s Rick Falkvinge reported how he came to understand this new policy:

    “It looked like just another bug report. “When I start Chromium, it downloads something.” Followed by strange status information that notably included the lines “Microphone: Yes” and “Audio Capture Allowed: Yes”.



    Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room.”


    Without going into detail, Falkvinge describes the nature of open-sourced/free-software and how it relies on transparency and the innovation of many software programmers before being finished as a final product. The transparency allows the user to know that the open-sourced software truly does what it claims to do. Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome is supposed to operate the same way. Only Google abused the nature of open-sourced transparency, and by-passed the process that would have prevented this from happening.

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    Google=Goggles. You might find some info in archives about 5 years back on this when they merged w/youtube and yahoo.

    Goggles is like a bad rash, just keeps spreading and spreading into your business and all they were was a search engine. Since they've snooped on every idea in the world, all they have to do is poll it and then buy it. Controllers playing hardball like Verizon. Google Verizon and AT&T were the NSA's door to everyone, when people started shutting off their Verizon phone service, they started buying up cable to gain even more access through the video gaming and cable networks. I don't like salesman that "shove their feet in the door" when you say no to snooping, do you?

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    Sounds to me like the article is referring to this:

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    Yes it's been there for awhile now, and it's been on your cell phones for quite some time.

    It is OFF by default (You have to enable it).

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    "Ok Google" voice search & actions

    You can use your voice on the Google app or Chrome to do things like search, get directions, and create reminders. For example, say "Ok Google do I need an umbrella tomorrow" to see if there's rain in the weather forecast.

    How to tell if the microphone is listening

    "Ok Google" only works on a new tab page. Look at the microphone icon in the search box to see whether it’s listening for the phrase "Ok Google" or not:



    From https://support.google.com/websearch...rd_search&rd=2
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    If it concerns you then simply don't enable it.

    If it REALLY concerns you then disable your mic from within your audio hardware settings.

    If it REALLY REALLY concerns you then you probably shouldn't be using the internet!


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    Love and Peace
    Last edited by Gurudatt; 26th June 2015 at 13:27.

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    Yandex has a good browser and email. Althouh some of the searches in English do not yield similar results in Chrome. I wonder if 1 or the other is offering a more righteous ranking of search results?

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