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This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco

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AI recording wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley

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BRB. Building a wearable that sends out an ultrasonic screech to blow out nearby microphones.
Going to call it "Blow Me."
Edit: looks like they already exist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2328652-voice-jammer-stops-anyone-from-recording-you-speak/
https://archive.ph/unmYO
Also, paper with more detail: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08490v1
- Is there a DIY build somewhere for something like this? From my quick googling I've only seen expensive off the shelf products
  
  https://github.com/mcore1976/antispy-jammer
  and also
  https://github.com/buildidealis/audio-jammer
You don't consent by not using one of those devices, period. On top of that, this should be a massive violation of multiple laws everywhere. Of course, corpos will corpo, and bypass laws at their pleasure.
- Your consent doesn't matter (legally) in a single-party consent state. Which includes some bigs like New York and Texas. California is a two-party consent state though, so theoretically these people should be informing each other that they are using recording equipment.
  
  I don't think you see what I'm getting at yet. What I said was that not buying one of those devices, among others, is the way you don't consent to your 4th Amendment rights being violated. Now, if a device like that is usable with a de-Googled solution, as long as it's hardened right, then at the very least, it shows you don't consent to the corporate spying. Government spying though... good luck with that.
inb4 weird techbro convos leak 🥹

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