Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

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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

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