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.
  • grid11@lemy.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    if this is used, or there is some whitelist that gives permission for background microphone use in voice interaction services, apps with tracking capabilities probably use some set of predefined keywords (hardcoded inside the app itself) and those can be triggered while being on standby/in background, when there is a match some pinging goes to outside servers…