[HN Gopher] Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads fo...
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Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook,
Google, etc.
Author : IronWolve
Score : 19 points
Date : 2024-09-02 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (news.itsfoss.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (news.itsfoss.com)
| LeftHandPath wrote:
| I've noticed that my ads get far more specific when I have mic
| and camera access enabled for Instagram (which is required in
| order to post stories with certain features). In fact, I've often
| (correctly) realized I accidentally left access on after posting
| due to a hyper-specific ad relating to a recent conversation.
| n_ary wrote:
| I am absolutely glad that, I disable Siri immediately on all of
| my devices and grateful for the ominous mic-in-use indicator on
| all apple devices. Android also has a mic in use indicator too,
| but own only a Pixel to comment on Android in general.
|
| The referenced articles are light on details and appear to be "he
| said she said they said" and pointing to the same archived blog
| post from CMG.
|
| That being said, I see a rising popularity of Alexa all over my
| circle, so no high hopes. Even if I can battle my devices, I
| can't battle my family, friends and neighbors from adding Amazon
| Echo devices everywhere and mindlessly talking to it all day.
|
| Edit: redundancy and typo.
| ycombinatrix wrote:
| I remember the official Facebook app would turn on the microphone
| for a few seconds every time you made a post.
|
| Do they still do that?
| wmf wrote:
| Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404229 There are reasons
| to be skeptical of this.
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