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Crowdsource. Pay people to run an app when they go around DC, that records constantly from their mic, and uploads it to the cloud along with their location. I’m

Crowdsource. Pay people to run an app when they go around DC, that records constantly from their mic, and uploads it to the cloud along with their location. I’m sure someone has already thought of this!

krapp 7y ago
> I’m sure someone has already thought of this! ...probably the CIA.
908087 7y ago
They call it Alexa.
cwkoss 7y ago
> Pay people This seems like an unnecessary step for the intelligence apparatus
- beamatronic 7y ago
  You could make your own intelligence service, like those repo men who scan license plates.
wwweston 7y ago
"Hey Alexa|Google|Siri, search for 'crowdsourced eavesdropping'."
stordoff 7y ago
La Liga: > The Spanish football league La Liga has admitted that its official smartphone app has been making audio recordings in order to identify pirate broadcasts of football games. > The league said its app detected the location of users, and if they were found to be in a bar, it then recorded audio clips using phone microphones. > The app used an algorithm to identify whether the person was watching a football game from the recording and compared that with their location to see if it the bar owner had paid for a licence to show the game or not. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/06/12/spanish-football-app-spied-users-phone-microphones/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/06/12/spanish-fo...
- ImprovedSilence 7y ago
  wow, that's crazy. I know big soccer clubs are huge about keeping secrets too. Down to what their players are eating/fed/ .
fencepost 7y ago
Highly variable by state, and probably a problem even in many one-party-consent states since the person doing the recording would generally not be a participant in recorded conversations. Many states and countries have laws on eavesdropping. See also this 2012 item: https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.pdf https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.p... Edit: "In the District of Columbia, an individual may record or disclose the contents of a wire or oral communication if he or she is a party to the communication, or has received prior consent from one of the parties. The District’s voyeurism law prohibits secretly taking images of people in private settings and distributing them without consent. The District also contains several obscure city rules regulating the activities of commercial street photographers." Both significant criminal and civil penalties might apply.

krapp 7y ago

> I’m sure someone has already thought of this! ...probably the CIA.

908087 7y ago

They call it Alexa.

cwkoss 7y ago

> Pay people This seems like an unnecessary step for the intelligence apparatus

beamatronic 7y ago
You could make your own intelligence service, like those repo men who scan license plates.

wwweston 7y ago

"Hey Alexa|Google|Siri, search for 'crowdsourced eavesdropping'."

stordoff 7y ago

La Liga: > The Spanish football league La Liga has admitted that its official smartphone app has been making audio recordings in order to identify pirate broadcasts of football games. > The league said its app detected the location of users, and if they were found to be in a bar, it then recorded audio clips using phone microphones. > The app used an algorithm to identify whether the person was watching a football game from the recording and compared that with their location to see if it the bar owner had paid for a licence to show the game or not. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/06/12/spanish-football-app-spied-users-phone-microphones/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/06/12/spanish-fo...

ImprovedSilence 7y ago
wow, that's crazy. I know big soccer clubs are huge about keeping secrets too. Down to what their players are eating/fed/ .

fencepost 7y ago

Highly variable by state, and probably a problem even in many one-party-consent states since the person doing the recording would generally not be a participant in recorded conversations. Many states and countries have laws on eavesdropping. See also this 2012 item: https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.pdf https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/RECORDING.p... Edit: "In the District of Columbia, an individual may record or disclose the contents of a wire or oral communication if he or she is a party to the communication, or has received prior consent from one of the parties. The District’s voyeurism law prohibits secretly taking images of people in private settings and distributing them without consent. The District also contains several obscure city rules regulating the activities of commercial street photographers." Both significant criminal and civil penalties might apply.