Re: you could simply not put the creepy things in your home
'So, explain to me how...'
Google assistant..most probably...ISTR some nonsense a couple of automatic updates¹ back where it somehow infected my phone and announced the fact that 'I'd just got Google Assistant'....errr, ok? why? did I ask for you?
Been sort of ignoring it, on the whole I'm not an incessant phone user and my android beastie spends most of it's life lurking in a padded case on the fireplace..but for gits and shiggles put a firewall on your phone sometime with a default deny and log ruleset and then sit back and watch how busy, busy, busy your phone's network connection is when you're not using it..oh, and 'deny' (hah!) google's stuff access to the hardware - mic and camera - for added fun and incessant on-screen bleatings..
¹I need to root my phone or finally get round to installing LineageOS/whatever...but I plead dread inertia...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
