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Facebook Wants to Hide Secret Inaudible Messages in TV Ads

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-lil-bit-of-spyin' dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyGuest52256

According to the patent, spotted by Metro, the system would use 'a non-human hearable digital sound' to activate your phone's microphone.

This noise, which could be a sound so high-pitched that humans cannot hear it, would contain a 'machine recognisable' set of Morse code-style beeps

Once your phone hears the trigger, it would begin to record 'ambient noise' in your home, such as the sound of your air conditioning unit, plumbing noises from your pipes and even your movements from one room to another.

Your phone would even listen in on 'distant human speech' and 'creaks from thermal contraction', according to the patent.

TV advertisers would use this data to determine whether you had muted your TV or moved to a different room when their promotional clip played.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5882587/Facebook-wants-hide-secret-inaudible-messages-TV-ads-force-phone-record-audio.html

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by idiot_king on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:31PM (4 children)

    by idiot_king (6587) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:31PM (#702120)

    Good thing I don't have a TV, or Facebook, or, or, or...
    One of captialism's fatal flaws is that if enough people opt out, it devours itself. But it's far more fun to try to fight back, that's for sure.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bitstream on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:42PM (3 children)

    by bitstream (6144) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:42PM (#702200) Journal

    Write a popular "app" that will generate the whistle signal at random times. Hillary ensues..

    Write another app that mutes video and audio on the TV anytime it signals "spam on your telly(tm)".

    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:46PM (1 child)

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:46PM (#702217)

      Write a popular "app" that will generate the whistle signal at random times. Hillary ensues..

      Write another app that mutes video and audio on the TV anytime it signals "spam on your telly(tm)".

      And make it available on F-droid instead of google's play store.

      --
      It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.

      • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:22AM

        by bitstream (6144) on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:22AM (#702267) Journal

        Even better. Make it throw up a popup "Won't run with google play active" ;-)

        And now back to installing Wife 2.1 while Mistress 1.01 is active. ;)

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by kazzie on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:30PM

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:30PM (#702531)

      Write a popular "app" that will generate the whistle signal at random times. Hillary ensues..

      Does she?