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Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission

Posted on June 23, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Samuel Gibbs reports:

Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.

First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.

Read more on The Guardian.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.

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