Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
www.the-independent.com Your smartphone is listening to you
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
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This might just push my fear of targeted ads enough to give in to my idea of a nearly soundproof box for my phone when I'm not using it. :(
Just install an OS that allows per-app microphone permissions. I'm running LineageOS and I can tell it for example to only allow Whatsapp mic access when I actively open the app. Actually according to the article, the same can be done on plain Android too.
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