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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 Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:41AM (#702321)

    "Auditors will become lazy and bribed. Human nature thing."
    Oh how I wish. However the reality is somewhat depressing.
    Auditors will make themselves necessary. It's their reason for existence.
    I do SOX. Been there, done that. Auditors will not go away, they will weasel their way into everything they possibly can.
    I loathe most auditors because they have no understanding of what they're auditing. Or the language of the people they're auditing.
    Deloitte is pure evil, they should hire native speakers to conduct their audits.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bitstream on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:11AM

    by bitstream (6144) on Wednesday July 04 2018, @07:11AM (#702413) Journal

    SOX = Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 ?