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Google bows to pressure to remove eavesdropping extension from Chromium
Google has removed an extension from its open source browser Chromium after people complained that it had been downloaded without permission and then listened to users through their microphones. The Chrome Hotword extension was used by Chromium to offer
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It's amazing they were including a closed source option in an open source program to begin with. I can see no reason not to disclose that fact if they were doing nothing wrong. This screams of major data collection on the unwary.