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pluralmonadtoday at 1:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

But tons of devices do listen. Go read the ToS for any modern hearing aid. They tell you directly that they do constant environment analysis and ship that data home.


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john-h-ktoday at 1:42 PM

If a hearing aid was genuinely sending everything it recorded back then it would run out of battery insanely fast. It would also have insanely high network usage

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grueztoday at 1:32 PM

Seems like a stretch to equivocate hearing aid telemetry with smartphones or TVs secretly eavesdropping?