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https://archive.md/rTcAg https://archive.md/rTcAg > Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background
by ttt0 6y ago
https://archive.md/rTcAg https://archive.md/rTcAg
> Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional state and location type to serve up the appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all!
> Spotify has received a patent that will allow it to use speech recognition and sound analysis to assess a user’s demographic attributes, determine their emotional state, and even glean insight into their location. The information will be used – hypothetically, at least – to pick the perfect song to play without requiring any conscious data input from the listener.
Straight out spying, basically. It's what people were warning about with Siri, Cortana or whatever it was called. And it was dismissed with "I don't care, I'm not doing anything illegal and I have nothing to hide".
- dorkwood 6y agoThank you. This is so much worse than what I imagined. Still, my prediction in that this will, unfortunately, turn out to be a popular feature.
- ttt0 6y agoTo be fair, there is plenty of batshit insane patents like that. The most famous example being US Patent 6506148: https://patents.justia.com/patent/6506148 https://patents.justia.com/patent/6506148 As to what does that mean, whether the things described in the patent have actually been used or it isn't just a bunch of nonsense, I don't really know.