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Uber spies on passengers using the microphone, I’m willing to bet. I was in an Uber, having a conversation with the driver about wine tasting in Woodenville. Wh
by teh_infallible 7y ago
Uber spies on passengers using the microphone, I’m willing to bet. I was in an Uber, having a conversation with the driver about wine tasting in Woodenville. When I got home, I had an email from Uber advertising wine tasting trips to Woodenville. The email was sent four minutes after my Uber ride. Coincidence?
I found a forum for Uber drivers where someone asked, “Why does the driver app ask to access the microphone?”
- mattmanser 7y agoDo you know how expensive (and shit) voice-to-text is? Go check out AWS Transcribe prices. Try it out too, see how much nonsense it will spew out. It's funny as I've literally just done a project on this to automatically classify phone calls. In reality voice recognition is only good at set phrases, most of Google Assistant and Alexa is smoke and mirrors. It wouldn't even be able to recognise "wine tasting in Woodenville", let alone for it to be economically viable to process every voice like sound in a taxi and make money off adverts. It's just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, not Uber recording you.
- 77pt77 7y agoNo they don't but due to false allegations from passengers (and to a lesses extent drivers) they plan on starting to record the conversations.
- esoterica 7y agoDid it occur to you that maybe the driver brought up Woodenville because he got the same email before the ride?
- baddox 7y agoI've never heard of Woodenville, but I'd be willing to bet that it's a popular place to go wine-tasting, and that would explain both your conversation and the email advertisement. The exact timing could of course be a coincidence, and not one that seems at all unlikely.