Does Google Assistant Record Your Conversations. Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app. Your cringe-worthy history can be heard and viewed along with a list of all your searches at your personal Google history page.
Your cringe-worthy history can be heard and viewed along with a list of all your searches at your personal Google history page. Your Google Home spends most of its time listening for its wake words Hey Google or OK Google The device then records everything you say after the wake word and sends it to Googles servers for parsing. Throughout the world so also in Belgium and the Netherlands people at Google listen to these audio files to improve Googles search engine.
Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app.
Privacy in the smart home is a hot topic with users increasingly interested in what data is being recorded and stored by companies and voice assistants like Googles Assistant. Google needs to store these recordings temporarily. When your phone lights up but can listen even when it doesnt light up Googles listening and or recording. Assistant recording is actually turned off by default - but the technology prompts users to turn on recording and other tools in order to get personalized features.