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[–] somePotato 176 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Google: mind if we put a keylogger on your browser for spellchecking?

You: don't

Google: OK, we won't use the keylogger data for spellchecking

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

People: "Can we please get some government regulation against all this spying?"

The government: "Best we can do is some tax cuts for Google."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They'll just use all the other methods they have to track what your typing.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/identify-keystrokes-just-sound-typing-175509837.html

Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing through a phone and over Zoom, with eerie results.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This was kinda overstated though. It really only works when you already have a dataset of that specific type on that specific keyboard. It's not gonna just work on anyone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Good distinction. I imagine anyone typing into a google search bar with an android device nearby could have their keyboard mapped though, if Google ever wanted to do such a thing.