• Google is secretly recording our conversations, with devices switching to ‘listening mode’ when we say ‘OK’, as opposed to a direct instruction to activate Google Assistant through the ‘OK Google’ prompt.
• An investigation by The Sun revealed that Android devices record 20 seconds of audio once we say OK, with these conversations then uploaded to Google’s servers.
• A Google spokesperson told The Sun that recordings are only used to improve its speech recognition across search & for marketing purposes (!!?).
• To access your sound files, sign into your Gmail or Google account, type “history.google.com/history” into your web browser, and head to the ‘Voice and Audio’ tab.
• You can switch off Google’s ability to store conversations in the ‘Web & App activity’ section.

Read more:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11909186

http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/how-google-is-secretly-recording-you-through-your-mobile-monitoring-millions-of-conversations/news-story/8089bf3084a430f4c4be46b81710c158

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