“Google has pulled its listening software from the open-source Chromium browser after complaints from developers and privacy campaigners. The tool, which uses the computer’s microphone to listen out for the ‘OK, Google’ hotword to trigger voice searches, was silently downloaded with updates of Chromium by default. Open-source advocates complained that Google was downloading a ‘black box’ on to their machines that was not open source and therefore could not be verified to be doing what it said it was meant to do. Google has now made it an optional download that will not be installed unless a user adds it from the Chrome Web Store and opts into the voice-search functionality.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/25/google-pulls-listening-software-chromium
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