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I'm skeptical this is what people might think it is. To be clear, I think most readers would interpret this as "your phone is surreptiously listening to you via
by the_snooze 3y ago
I'm skeptical this is what people might think it is. To be clear, I think most readers would interpret this as "your phone is surreptiously listening to you via your microphone." If that were true, then there would be telltale signs of resource draw. Handling rich audio data has practical costs, whether battery, CPU, network, memory, and/or disk; that data has to be stored, transmitted, and processed somehow. I've never seen analysis that shows that's happening. Not to mention this capability is beyond what audio capture APIs in Android and iOS offer, as far as I know.
- kube-system 3y agoI would guess it is limited to certain applications that use more sketchy advertising SDKs, not anything mainstream
- seanp2k2 3y agoAgree. I’ve disassembled a few big-name social media APKs and looked for the API calls to activate the mic and it’s only there where you’d expect when eg recording audio for a post. This makes a lot of sense when you consider how much legal trouble they’d be in if they were found to be recording without consent. I’m guessing here that this link is just exaggerated metaphor or using something like background sounds from people triggering in-app voice assistant search or something really low-quality like that.