Your smartphone is listening to you
www.the-independent.com
Software from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching
  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Article is from 2018. Someone must have pasted the url from hacker news where the same story was dug up recently.

    • nalinna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Is that to say that it’s no longer valid? Or just that it’s old news? The list of apps associated with the software is still pretty extensive; Google Assistant even showed up.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Well these days Android asks for more permissions so I guess it would prevent it in many cases by preventing access to the microphone for apps where you don’t want to allow it…