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I was about to leave an extremely similar comment, but I was going to frame it in terms of the NSA "direct access" story. I got the impression from that story t
by glenstein 9y ago
I was about to leave an extremely similar comment, but I was going to frame it in terms of the NSA "direct access" story. I got the impression from that story that immediate denials from tech companies, which seemed categorical, turned out to hinge on which magic words were used.
In this case, when I read a sentence like "We don't use your microphone for ads" I end up doing that game where you re-read the sentence over and over and emphasize a different word each time, trying to guess which one is the magic word.
- hexane360 9y ago"We don't use your microphone for ads, your phone uses its microphone for our ads" /s
- trophycase 9y ago"We don't serve you advertisements through your microphone."
- zionic 9y agoMy favorite is "WE" don't, but our partners do.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoWe don't use your microphone for ads
- zild3d 9y ago"We don't use your microphone for ads", we use the microphone of whoever is near you based on location data