Google secretly installs audio snooping program on Chrome browsers to listen to your private conversations
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, July 05, 2015
Media giant Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil,” but it increasingly appears as though the company rarely follows its own advice.
As reported by Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, privacy advocates and open source developers are livid after discovering that the installation of Google’s browsing software, Google Chrome, comes with an added capability: it allows remote technicians to listen in on conversations held near computers where the browser is installed.
The capability was first identified by open source developers, who noticed that the Chromium browser that Chrome is based on remotely installed audio surveillance code enabling computers to be tapped.
As noted by the paper:
It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.
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