What is usually shown, time and time again, is that the voice assistants aren't secretly recording. They are triggered because they heard something that sounded like a hotword.
Maybe you were talking about what dog you want you buy. Someone asks if a Greyhound would be alright and you said "No way, Poodle!". Well, the device picked it up as "Ok Google" and begins listening for a command. It makes a bleep, and lights up and you start talking about dogs or whatever.
You maybe didn't notice, so it picks up 15 seconds of a conversation, has no idea what to do, and probably just does an image search for dog pictures or even just the "I don't know how to help with that".
Not to say you shouldn't be annoyed that it picks up unrelated stuff... I just always think "secretly recording" is such a misnomer.
Maybe you were talking about what dog you want you buy. Someone asks if a Greyhound would be alright and you said "No way, Poodle!". Well, the device picked it up as "Ok Google" and begins listening for a command. It makes a bleep, and lights up and you start talking about dogs or whatever.
You maybe didn't notice, so it picks up 15 seconds of a conversation, has no idea what to do, and probably just does an image search for dog pictures or even just the "I don't know how to help with that".
Not to say you shouldn't be annoyed that it picks up unrelated stuff... I just always think "secretly recording" is such a misnomer.