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Chromium/Chrome SpeechRecognition implementation records end-users' voice and sends the users' voice to an external web service #4196

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guest271314 opened this issue Apr 13, 2018 · 1 comment

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Chromium/Chrome records and sends the users' recorded voice to an external web service as their implementation of SpeechRecognition, which was not documented at MDN prior to this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441731, and is still not widely documented, for example, where Chromium does not provide terms at chrome:terms https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=816095.

It is not immediately clear if the Chromium/Chrome users' voice (PII data) that is recorded when using webkitSpeechRecognition is retained (forever) and further used by the undisclosed web service, for undisclosed purposes.

If users visit https://caniuse.com/#search=SpeechRecognition, there should be aware that their voice is being recorded when they use webkitSpeechRecognition at Chromium/Chrome, without any notification.

The above facts should be duly noted at https://caniuse.com/#search=SpeechRecognition.

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The linked issue at Chromium bugs Does webkitSpeechRecognition send recorded audio to a remote web service by default? was closed with status changed from "Unconfirmed" to "WontFix".

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