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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:58PM (1 child)
That's a start, but we can do better.
How about grab and record the ultra-sounds and replay them at completely unrelated times. Think the advertisers would like to hear part of black-hat? or some noisy conference, maybe in a theater... basically find a bunch of people and get their phones to report bogus stats.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:13PM
So we get the MPAA to fight our war for us?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam