In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention - eviltoast
One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
  • mrinfinity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    Then hide it encrypted in an image upload or some other packet. Listen for ‘buy a <something>’ encrypt its text version, wait for something to cargo it with in a data transmission so people looking at data transmissions aren’t any the wiser, hide it in some obscure way that would look normal otherwise, it’s intercepted, sends off to advertisers. Adtech is cyber terrorism.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      You don’t think security experts know about stereonography techniques? It’s like the first thing you learn about in uni for it. Like the first week.