This is a technology site, the way these voice assistant works has been posted numerous times and is common knowledge at this point. They've been ripped apart by multiple security pros. Yet every thread we get unjustified replies like this. It is tiresome and frustrating.
But I'll post it once again:
- Wake phase detection is all handled locally (i.e. on device).
- It loops a continuous recording over itself. If no phase is detected within a few seconds the recording is permanently lost.
- We can see from data monitoring it isn't continuously transmitting (and that's also what the companies behind it claim).
- "It could be modified" is a red herring. You are already carrying ON YOUR PERSON an always connected microphone with not one by two layers of operating system on it (baseband + consumer OS).
It should not be popular to post "photographs can steal your soul"-levels of tech-spiracy on a site like this, but yet here we are again.