Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

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If you have the Notion Desktop App installed, you may have started to notice a "In a meeting? Start AI Meeting Notes" notification pop up exactly when you are joining a virtual meeting (e.g. joining a Google Meet on Firefox).
At first, I assumed it must have been using my Google Workspace account to snoop on my calendar. But then I started to notice it would notify exactly when I joined even if I was late and the meeting had previously started.
This was the response from Notion Support after they worked with the Notion Engineering team.

Meeting Detection Architecture:
- The system uses a sophisticated dual-detection approach: microphone monitoring combined with network port analysis
- Detection is implemented separately for macOS and Windows at the native operating system level

I've uninstalled the Notion Desktop App...

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