Google Chrome could listen to your conversations, expert claims

Technology-savvy criminals could be listening in to the conversations of people visiting voice-controlled websites using Google's Chrome browser, one computer expert claims. Computer security expert Tal Ater discovered that criminals could potentially use the web browser's voice recognition abilities to invade users' privacy. While the Israeli programmer reported the problem to Google last September, he says the search giant has not yet fixed the issue. Technology-savvy criminals could be listening in to the conversations of people visiting voice-controlled websites using Google's Chrome browser, one computer expert claims After reporting the problem to Google last year, he immediately received a response from the company saying that their engineers were busy fixing it. Mr Ater said that within two weeks of reporting the problem, a patch for the fix was ready.