How Google listens to you through the microphone and where to find these recordings.

Google eavesdrops on users and keeps conversations on its own servers.

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The smartphone monitors not only when the user is on the phone, using social networks or a search engine, claims VC. A gadget records information even when it is just lying on a table or bag.

You can learn about listening in the user agreement. Information gathers artificial intelligence. Therefore, the smartphone adapts to its user, makes navigation more convenient.

However, experts call the negative side of such tracking.

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First, if someone breaks the password to the user account, the collected information can get to the attackers.

Secondly, all data can be used against the owner of the smartphone, which has a conflict with the authorities.

Thirdly, information is collected in order to display advertising “tailored” to the user.

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Three quarters of applications on the Android operating system track the location of users. These are the findings of a study by the non-profit French organization Exodus Privacy. Exodus experts have discovered 44 extraneous GPS trackers in 300 Android applications.

Among the applications that use such plug-ins, one of the most popular applications in the Google Play Store.

Fortunately, there is a way to figure it all out and delete all this information. All this can be done through a special, little-known service. You just need to log in and clean everything.

Here are the addresses you need:

• Here All data that is recorded by your phone’s microphone is stored. If there is nothing here, then you simply did not use a voice assistant, i.e. never said "ok google".
• Rђ RІRѕS, full dossierGoogle has collected on you, based on what you do on the Internet.

Among other things, there is information about where and when you were (more precisely, your phone); everything you searched on the Internet; all pages that you downloaded.

But the most useful feature of this service is the ability to quickly delete everything from there. You can select the entries you want to delete with a checkbox, or you can delete everything at once - in one fell swoop. Click on the “Select Uninstall Options” button in the left column.

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