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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.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by koick on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:32PM (1 child)
I am far from being a lawyer, but this would very likely fall under wiretapping laws and would be considered illegal (no matter what the fucking terms of service we never read says).
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:15AM
These are people for which the juridical law won't apply. But physical law is however inescapable.