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My thought has been that they're listening for background sounds to try to beef up the advertising profile they have on me. Maybe there is some super sketchy a
by philsnow 3y ago
My thought has been that they're listening for background sounds to try to beef up the advertising profile they have on me. Maybe there is some super sketchy ad-tech company putting beacons that emit a QR-like UUID audio signature in the frequencies near the top and bottom of the range that gets transmitted by cell phones, and ringing you up from a robo-dialer and listening for the beacons tells them where you are.
- potsandpans 3y agoAs far fetched as it sounds, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
- leptons 3y agoIt's already happened. https://medium.com/@Gentlemen_ESWAR/your-phone-is-listening-ultrasonic-cross-device-tracking-db3b2d9ca07a https://medium.com/@Gentlemen_ESWAR/your-phone-is-listening-...
- smolder 3y agoThe quality of the writing in your link is hilariously bad. I'm biased against trusting big blobs of unpunctuated text.