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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 Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:04PM
What if you ditched cable more than a decade ago?
What if you never turn the TV on?
What if you sold the TV and hung up a poster/mounted deer head/kid's painting on the wall where it used to be?
What if you don't even have a wall to hang a TV on because you're homeless, you insensitive clod?
Washington DC delenda est.