Google Now ("OK Google") can be enabled to listen when the phone is off - Settings -> Google -> Search & Now -> Voice -> OK Google -> Always On.
Using a bit of chicanery, you can even train it to listen for something other than "OK Google". On the same screen as above, hit "Retrain voice model" and then train it to anything you like, so long as it is at least three syllables (I have found this seems to be important) vaguely reminiscent of O-K-Goo-gle. I was using "Wake Up Please" for a while.![]()
So Google can listen to everything you're saying all the time?
Great that's what I wanted to know. Does anyone remember that Moto had a special always listening Chip so it didn't drain juice. Wondering if they brought that to the pixel?
So Google can listen to everything you're saying all the time?
Just a few of the things you can do with a cell phone: Mobile spy app, Android spy, Call recording, Whatsapp spy, SMS tracker
None of those things are truly a concern.
snapdragon 821 has embedded always on module in it
So Google can listen to everything you're saying all the time?
No that is not the case... when you set OK Google to Always On... you're phone is always listening for the "Ok Google" phrase, it's not recording it's just listening for the phrase to start the record process... when it hears "Ok Google" then it records what you are saying and then send that recording to Google's servers to analyse what you said and gives you a response back. I'm sure they do save these recordings for a period of time, which helps them to analyse some of them and improve on their responses.
Amazon Echo does this same thing... you can actually go into the Acho app and see a history of your requests.
Google Home works the same way.
Before some of you go how do you know, Blah Blah Blah... just think of how much storage space it would take to record through your phone 24x7, multiplied by the 100's of millions of devices out there. It's just unrealistic.
Oh I don't disagree with you that it could be possible... but I don't think it will happen without us soon finding out about it.I don't disagree with you at all - let me just get that out of the way.
But, now that we know about Yahoo scanning all email for key terrorist "signatures" (Yahoo Said to Have Aided U.S. Email Surveillance by Adapting Spam Filter - The New York Times), what's to stop Big Brother from ordering Google/Amazon/et al to have all of these devices constantly listen for terror-related key words or phrases?
Seriously, it could happen...