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
  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    22 hours ago

    PLEASE SKIM THE ARTICLE BEFORE COMMENTING

    Here’s the part that most people seemed to miss:

    With your permission provided at the time of downloading the app, the ACR software receives short duration audio samples from the microphone on your device.