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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)

submitted 6 months ago by TechDesk@flipboard.social to c/cybersecurity@fedia.io

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months 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 2 points 6 months 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.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

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