Developer tells Google about Chrome browser listening risk
(Phys.org) —One developer's posting this week about Chrome has drawn a bunch of headlines from tech sites launching into reports on the developer's headline post: "Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations." Tal Ater, who maintains a JavaScript speech recognition library, annyang, said he made the discovery some months ago while working on annyang. When you click the microphone icon on the right side of the search box, you can enable voice actions where you can speak into the Chrome browser to search, get directions, send messages or any other such basic task. According to Ater, by exploiting Chrome bugs, malicious sites could turn Google Chrome into a listening device, which could record anything you said in your surroundings as long as Chrome is still running.