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I wonder if it's a fingerprinting attempt gone wrong? I can't see a reasonable even malicious reason for eavesdropping on mic/camera at scale like that, you'll
by Nextgrid 5y ago
I wonder if it's a fingerprinting attempt gone wrong? I can't see a reasonable even malicious reason for eavesdropping on mic/camera at scale like that, you'll be capturing a ton of data you need to manually process/clean up which takes time/resources, most people won't stay on the page long enough to capture enough sensitive info and even then, eavesdropped conversations seem pretty useless unless you also have the whole context and information on the person you're targeting to be able to effectively misuse that data.
- drclau 5y ago> eavesdropped conversations seem pretty useless unless you also have the whole context and information on the person you're targeting to be able to effectively misuse that data Keywords (i.e. "perfume", "car", "phone", "notebook", "flowers", whatever) would probably be enough to "improve" targeted ads. However, this would be a huge scandal if true, so your first suggestion, fingerprinting gone wrong, is more likely.