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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[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 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.

[-] billyjoebowers@mastodon.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

@TechDesk@flipboard.social @TechRadar

I hate it here.

[-] johnhattan@dobbs.town 1 points 3 weeks ago

@TechDesk@flipboard.social @TechRadar @bobcromwell@dobbs.town it's either a conspiracy to spy on you, or the developers accidentally left on microphone access in the app's manifest.

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