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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) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:43AM (1 child)
Just wait until it becomes part of your "package" and "Terms and Conditions". Want game of thrones?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday July 04 2018, @04:45AM
While I see your point, that doesn't apply to me. Nothing is worth going back to advertisements, or Big Cable. It would need to be blowjobs with hundred dollar bills raining down from the ceiling before I watch their commercials again. Very. Serious. Compensation. I don't mean that Brave bullshit either, but cash money. After my epiphany that I was paying over one hundred dollars per month to people that were selling my eyeballs as a product, I decided that I would get paid for my eyeballs, or that it would be a net positive, not a net negative.
Also, I've never watched Game of Thrones :)
If I did want it, I would pirate it to get the quality I desire. I do compensate the artists where possible. The number of Redbox DVDs I returned within 60 seconds of renting them is quite high. $1 with no ads, no real restrictions (pirate material), and no tracking is attractive.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.