Emphasis on “when it thinks”. Not much point to a privacy control that the device can just ignore for unspecified reasons, and they had 150+ instances of that occurring in this data set.
But VRT NWS said that 153 of the 1,000 recordings it listened to “were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command ‘OK Google’ was clearly not given.”
15% of the recordings these reporters listened to were “inadvertant.” I’d say that’s pretty high.
Emphasis on “when it thinks”. Not much point to a privacy control that the device can just ignore for unspecified reasons, and they had 150+ instances of that occurring in this data set.
~150 inadvertent activations is pretty low for the number of devices times however many years it spans.
From the linked article
15% of the recordings these reporters listened to were “inadvertant.” I’d say that’s pretty high.