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Should We Be Worried About Smart Speakers? Are They Always Listening?!

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Is Alexa always listening? Could my Google Home be hacked?! Paul and Ben talk smart speaker privacy concerns!✅ Get 2 months of Skillshare for free: https://skillshare.eqcm.net/7qEPd

Is Google always listening? If you're looking into smart speaker pros and cons and you're rightly concerned by privacy issues, you might have asked yourself, "is Siri always listening?" In this, the first episode of our new podcast, we answer questions such as "Is Google Home always listening?" (eg. for the wake-up phrase "OK Google" or "Hey Google") as well as asking if it's possible for people to use Google Home to secretly listen in to conversations.

We talk about how the always-listening technology works so that the devices can respond when you say "Siri!", "Alexa!" or "OK Google!", as well as answering Ben's question: Does Google Home listen to you all the time? And could someone hack a smart speaker to see what you're saying inside the privacy of your own home?!

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