[SenHeng]

So you want your magical EarPods to be always listening and recording everything from the past, say 5 seconds?

[dredmorbius]

A brief ring buffer is a fairly privacy-respecting implementation, as opposed to long-term capture and storage.

Demonstrating that such a capability is in fact a brief ring buffer to the average Joe or Josephina on the street might prove more challenging, and numerous similar technologies have rapidly acquired a highly pejorative taint, e.g., "glassholes".

[russdill]

It would probably be the phone, but yes

[rogerrogerr]

Already is, in some sense, for 'hey siri'.