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No. Google is not recording all the calls or anything which we generally do in an Android smartphone. You can say it has multiple layers of the security system to keep hackers far from this.
Though Google can quietly record many of the conversations that people have in close proximity to its products.
You can disable mic access of the phone for any app and anything which you don’t want to track, due to these problems increases for the hacker to hack anything. As Android is enhancing day by day, it’s security also enhancing.
Though it is always listening to all your conversations, when you say OKAY Google, it activates the Voice search function. But there is no way to know whether Google is storing data of our conversations until they go through a difficult DATA AUDIT. The DATA AUDIT should be similar to the financial audit of a company’s annual results.
We cannot and should not trust any of the digital media companies after Cambridge Analytica scandal. Companies like Facebook and Google are taking advantages of the general public who is illiterate on digital privacy.
Most of us downloads cracked app from torrent for fun but on the other hand, doesn’t think about its consequences like what we know about the publisher of that app included any tracking or monitoring system on that app and we are unaware of it. But now in marshmallow, every app have to grant permission for accessing any personal thing on the phone. That’s the increased security system of Google.
You can access all the information Google has on you by heading on over to Google’s history page.
The company has a specific audio page with a long list of recordings stored there and another for activity on the web, which will show you everywhere. Google has a record of you being on the internet.
You can go there to listen back to some of the recordings and immediately delete them when your cringe-quota gets filled hearing yourself ask your smartphone to call your mum because you can’t be bothered to move your thumb a centimeter to the left.
Is Google Assistant Always Listening?
If you have a certain setting enabled on your phone, saying OK Google will cause it to listen for a command. Before you say this wake phrase, your phone is listening for the OK Google hotword, but it is not recording everything you say and uploading it to Google.
Just like with concerns over the Amazon Echo, constantly recording everything a device hears would result in enormous amounts of useless data.
What Google does record is the voice commands you say to your phone
Is Google Home mini always listening?
Google Home, by default, always listen to your conversations. But they don’t record anything until they hear specific keywords such as “OK, Google”.
Once the device hears the keyword, it starts recording and instantly uploads what you say to cloud servers, where the recorded speech is quickly processed into machine-comprehensible instructions that are passed back down to the devices so that they can carry out your commands.
Does Google listen to my conversations to push ads to me?
The answer to your question is both Yes / NO. Actually, that depends on your usage. If you are fond of using OK-Google/microphone command then yes, Google does record your voice and stores it too… You may want to listen to your own voice and commands that you gave using OK-Google.
Google says they do not record or listen to your conversations. That does not preclude the microphone being used to pick up on keywords or topics and storing them against your profile for ad serving.
This is the same as Google saying they do not “read” your Gmail emails.
So your privacy is safe, but ads can be served according to what Google “hears”.
How to Hear and Delete every conversation Your Google Home has recorded.
To get started, log in to your Google account via a web browser. Click your profile picture in the top right, click on “Google Account,” and afterwards you’ll be taken to an overview page. Look for the “Personal info & privacy” column centered in the overview page, then click on “Manage your Google activity.” Once you’re there, scroll down until you reach the “Review activity” section — this is what you’re looking for — and click on the “Go to my activity” link.
If you’re using your phone, the process is similar, but the appearance of the options change a little. To get there, log in to your Google account in the browser and tap the following: your profile picture > Manage Accounts > Google Activity Controls > Manage Activity. You’ll be greeted by a full list of all queries that can be sorted and deleted.
How Do You Turn Off Google Recording?
You can disable Google’s voice recording in two different ways.
Turn Off OK Google on Your Phone
The first is to turn off the OK Google detection on your phone, which you can do by performing the following:
- Open Settings on your phone and enter the Google category.
- Select Search under Services.
- Next, tap Voice.
- You’ll see a Voice Match entry; this may also be listed as “OK Google” detection. Tap that.
- Disable the Say “Ok Google” any time slider. You may also want to disable while driving to prevent it in Google Maps and Android Auto, though it is convenient in those scenarios.
Once you do this, Google Assistant will only respond to OK Google when you have the Google app open.
How to Revoke Google’s Access to Your Microphone
To go further, you can deny the Google app permission to access your microphone:
- Open Settings on your phone and tap Apps & notifications.
- Tap See all X apps to get a full list.
- Scroll down to Google and select it.
- Tap Permissions and disable the Microphone slider.
How to Disable Google Assistant
- Open Settings on your phone and enter the Google category.
- Select Search under Services.
- Tap Settings under Google Assistant.
- Tap your device name under Devices.
- Slide the Google Assistant toggle off
