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A British consumer group found that three air fryers it tested all wanted to "record audio on the user's phone, for no specified reason". Read it at @TechRadar. #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #China (flipboard.social)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Presumably this is an app? Why do you need this app? Air fryers are such a fad, 20 years ago it was those three tiered steamers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My guess is the 'legitimate reason is for voice activation and a bunch of companies are just adding that to everything to justify harvesting more data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Why do we need to guess? It's not that difficult to check, but I guess that would require actual journalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] @TechRadar @[email protected] it's either a conspiracy to spy on you, or the developers accidentally left on microphone access in the app's manifest.