HOT 202: Stop Devices from Listening for Keyword Activations - Halt Devices From Listening In
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On Hands-On Tech, host Mikah Sargent addresses a listener's concern about their Apple devices seemingly listening to conversations in their office and offers a few way to disable this functionality.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on hands-on tech, let's take a look at how we can stop our devices from listening to us. |
| 0:07.4 | And no, this isn't the thing about devices listening to us to service ads. Don't worry. Stay tuned. |
| 0:13.2 | You'll hear more about it in a moment. This is Twitter. |
| 0:17.5 | 25 years ago, a small group of business and government leaders met in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:22.8 | They envisioned the creation of an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to help people, businesses, and government mitigate the growing threat of cyber attacks. |
| 0:33.3 | Today, the Center for Internet Security embodies that vision. |
| 0:36.0 | For 25 years, it's worked with a global |
| 0:38.9 | community of IT and cybersecurity experts to develop the CIS benchmarks and CIS critical security |
| 0:45.4 | controls. These proven security best practices defend against common cyber threats and streamline |
| 0:51.2 | compliance with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards. |
| 0:56.0 | Today, CIS provides cybersecurity services, threat intelligence, and critical resources |
| 1:01.0 | to help public and private sector organizations alike strengthen their cyber defenses. |
| 1:06.9 | Visit CISsecurity.org today. That's the letters c.issecurity.org to find out how CIS can help your organization as we create confidence in the connected world. |
| 1:24.3 | Hello and welcome to hands-on tech. I am Micah Sargent, and today we are taking a look at another |
| 1:29.2 | tech question. This one comes in from Glenn. Glenn writes, how do I turn off Apple from listening |
| 1:37.2 | to what's going on in a room, in this case my office? It's creepy. In my office, I have a Mac |
| 1:42.7 | studio for photography work, plus a MacBook Pro with a lid closed with an Apple studio display, plus two recently purchased home pods. |
| 1:50.5 | Quite often I'm working on one of the two systems with a YouTube video, Mac Break Weekly. |
| 1:55.0 | That's what they have in parentheses, Glenn has in parentheses, running in the background. |
| 1:59.6 | And suddenly, from my home pods, I'll get, I found some web results I can show you if you requests from your iPhone. |
| 2:05.6 | Besides the annoyance factor, it's the fact that I'm being listened to without my knowledge. |
| 2:10.6 | So what is the best way to prevent it from listening? Is there perhaps an app for that? I very rarely use Siri. It's just not that good. I mostly use Google Chrome or |
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