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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:31PM (#702152)

    you have to legally find a way to do it while making a profit or cease doing business in the EU. Which mostly leads to a delicious self selection where all the honest mechanics leave, and the only ones left over are those willing to lie and/or break the law to provide service.

    What a great logic and exquisite analogies!
    It's like S/N, which continues to do business in Europe, therefore it must be looking up under the women skirts, did I get it right?
    'cause everyone here know TMB is a dirty lying pervert when it comes to the privates, you say it yourself, no reason to distrust you.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:49PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:49PM (#702162)

    It's like S/N, which continues to do business in Europe, therefore it must be looking up under the women skirts, did I get it right?

    Yeah exactly, of course you'd think streaming upskirt videos would make more money than SN's three grand per funding drive, but apparently upOldMensKilts.com doesn't pay as much for hot video as we'd all assume. (As I nervously point my videoconference webcam away from me)