{"id":1801,"date":"2015-10-30T14:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2021-08-02T04:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:38:48","slug":"so-google-records-all-the-microphone-audio-all-the-time-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/so-google-records-all-the-microphone-audio-all-the-time-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"So Google Records All The Microphone Audio All The Time, After All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It seems Google does record audio from microphones all the time, despite attempts to play down the situation. The \u201chotword\u201d searching \u2013 when you initiate a search by saying \u201cOk Google\u201d \u2013 has been criticized before, when it was downloaded to open-source browsers running Chromium. However, major privacy concerns remain as Google doesn\u2019t start recording when you say \u201cOk Google\u201d; it was recording before you said the hotword.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth\/\">Google drive-by-downloaded<\/a> a black box of recording code onto the Chromium open-source browser, there was a general outrage about Google code listening in to your room. The objections mainly fell into one of two categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is downloading a black box of code to open-source and free-software systems without permission, compromising them.<\/li>\n<li>Google is using proprietary code to listen in to your room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of these, the first was considered the most grave by far, as any proprietary running code will have access to the device\u2019s sensors \u2013 including microphone \u2013 almost by definition, and therefore it wasn\u2019t really considered strange that proprietary code had access to black-box recording. However, it was still a privacy issue and a concern that Google had the capability to listen in to any and every room where there was a Chrome or an Android running, which \u2013 frankly \u2013 is a rather large portion of the available rooms on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Google kind of roundabout apologized for having drive-by-downloaded black-box proprietary code to the open-source Chromium browser, and people attempting to shoot down the story (there are always those, and usually with the top-voted comment\u2026) insisted that Google didn\u2019t open the audio recording until <em>after<\/em> you had said the magic words <em>\u201cOk Google\u201d<\/em>, something that is termed a <em>hotword<\/em> to begin recording, analyzing, and transcribing.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Google\u2019s transparency initiative, you can see (some of?) the data Google has stored about you. It turns out that all audio searches are saved, permanently, and you can listen to your own previous voice commands and voice searches. They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/?continue=https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/activitycontrols\/webandapp?pli%3D1\">listed<\/a> in chronological order.<\/p><p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1815\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/history\/audio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-from-2015-10-30-110929.png\" alt=\"A screenshot from my Google Audio History. I can listen to the recordings as well as read the transcriptions. If you've been using voice search, you have a page like this, too.\" width=\"572\" height=\"511\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from my Google Audio History. I can listen to the recordings as well as read the transcriptions. If you\u2019ve been using voice search, you have a page like this, too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>You\u2019ll recall from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth\/\">previous<\/a> privacy discussion, that Google having access to microphones in pretty much every room gives Google the ability to eavesdrop on those each and every rooms continuously. It should be pointed out that this is a technical ability; there\u2019s no indication this is happening, but the presence of the capability is cause for serious privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In that discussion, people said \u2013 no, insisted and shouted \u2013 that the fear was overblown, tinfoilhattery, and mental. \u201cObviously, Google only records audio after you say <em>Ok, Google<\/em>\u201c, pundits said from all directions. But when listening to this recorded audio search off of Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/?continue=https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/activitycontrols\/webandapp?pli%3D1\">audio search history<\/a> page, something peculiar sticks out, that nobody seems to have noticed. Listen to this:<\/p><p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1801-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okgoogle-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okgoogle-1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okgoogle-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/p><p><strong>Did you hear it?<\/strong> The recording <em>starts<\/em> with me saying \u201cOk, Google\u201d. That means that the above assertion \u2013 that recording starts <em>after<\/em> those words are said \u2013 is incorrect. Recording happened before those words were said. And if recording happened before those words were said, which <em>must<\/em> be the case since they\u2019re part of the very recording, then audio recording from the microphone(s) is <em>always<\/em> active to some unknown degree. We see what Google claims is sent to Google \u2013 but of course, we have no way whatsoever of verifying this other than blind trust, and that\u2019s in a corporation whose motto has shifted over the years from \u201cDon\u2019t be evil\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/12\/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy\">to<\/a> \u201cPrivacy is overrated\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/12\/14\/5209622\/google-has-bought-robotics-company-boston-dynamics\">to<\/a> \u201cWhee, we make military robots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing. Even if Google isn\u2019t intentionally recording at unknown cues in addition to the hotword searches \u2013 and I can\u2019t emphasize enough that there\u2019s no way to know this but blind trust is required \u2013 Google will <em>still<\/em> start recording audio at random times and send it to Google\u2019s servers, when it picks up something it thinks sounds like \u201cOk, Google\u201d from a conversation. This happened to me a week ago in Seoul, when I was discussing privacy concerns with EFF activists Parker Higgins and Maira Sutton (at least I believe it was that part of the conversation, but that\u2019s beside the point here). All of a sudden, I noticed that my phone was transcribing what I was saying on its screen: Google\u2019s audio detection had kicked in mid-conversation and it was recording the room. I was able to download that part of my conversation with the EFF activists off of Google\u2019s Voice History page later:<\/p><p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1801-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okgoogle-2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okgoogle-2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/okgoogle-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/p><p>So in summary;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We know now that Google\u2019s audio recording does not start after you say \u201cOk Google\u201d, but was active before you said it, suggesting that it\u2019s always active to some degree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Regardless of intentions, Google can start recording audio from a room mid-conversation anyway, as illustrated above.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has all sorts of nasty privacy implications, and they\u2019re not easy to work out. The way to do this properly for privacy is to make sure that all audio interpretation must happen locally, but even then, you can\u2019t know if something is sent to a remote server if you\u2019re searching for the wrong things as long as proprietary code is running (for instance, if you\u2019re searching for something like methods for acquiring substances used to manufacture thermonuclear weapons, a search I dare say is never used to actually manufacture one in your basement, but which might still raise a flag somewhere).<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Google does record audio from microphones all the time, despite attempts to play down the situation. The \u201chotword\u201d searching \u2013 when you initiate a search by saying \u201cOk Google\u201d \u2013 has been criticized before, when it was downloaded to open-source browsers running Chromium. However, major privacy concerns remain as Google doesn\u2019t start recording &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/so-google-records-all-the-microphone-audio-all-the-time-after-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Google Records All The Microphone Audio All The Time, After All?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>So Google Records All The Microphone Audio All The Time, After All?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It seems Google does record audio from microphones all the time, despite attempts to play down the situation. 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