Google’s AI model will potentially listen in on all your phone calls — or at least ones it suspects are coming from a fraudster.
To protect the user’s privacy, the company says Gemini Nano operates locally, without connecting to the internet. “This protection all happens on-device, so your conversation stays private to you. We’ll share more about this opt-in feature later this year,” the company says.
“This is incredibly dangerous,” says Meredith Whittaker, the president of a foundation for the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal.
Whittaker —a former Google employee— argues that the entire premise of the anti-scam call feature poses a potential threat. That’s because Google could potentially program the same technology to scan for other keywords, like asking for access to abortion services.
“It lays the path for centralized, device-level client-side scanning,” she said in a post on Twitter/X. “From detecting ‘scams’ it’s a short step to ‘detecting patterns commonly associated w/ seeking reproductive care’ or ‘commonly associated w/ providing LGBTQ resources’ or ‘commonly associated with tech worker whistleblowing.’”
Ask how many civilians Obama killed without congressional approval under the War Powers Act.
Google the IRS targeting conservatives under Lois Lerner and sanctioned by the Administration.
And you call that authoritarian?
Man you need to leave the house more often.
For one, he supports democracy, which kind of already takes the foundation away from under your arguments.
I’m not saying that any of those things are good (though the latter seems to not be something he directed anyways) but a lot of that is what the US does, or have you forgotten Iran, Iraq, Chile, Nicaragua, el Salvador, Afghanistan, Vietnam… I can go on for a while, but you get the idea.
None of it is good, but if you want to compare Obama to any Republican president, I can quite easily tell you he’ll come out on top. I don’t particularly like US presidents, most are really rather dumb, egocentric, and so on, but he really wasn’t that bad.