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"We Could Get Sued for This" - GamersNexus goes deep with the privacy violations and overreach of modern consumer electronics, including Smart TVs, other devices, and how they record your voice. (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 92 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never bought the whole bullshit line of “The device could technically be recording you, but it isn’t. Trust us.” Good on GamersNexus for doing the legwork to prove it isn’t true.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any device with a speaker can be retasked to use it as a microphone.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Well... No. And opamp output is fully different than an opamp input. They aren't reversible.

The electronics would have to be specially designed to be a transceiver instead of just a speaker output (I mean, they definitely can do it, it just is more work and more cost)

It would be 10x cheaper just to put a microphone in it.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Sort of. Most of them would need a change in hardware to support it.