Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, but also no. You’re underestimating advertisers’ greed for data.

  It’s actually trivial nowadays to build a background service like that.

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  • LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which would show up in network traffic , which it doesnt. There is no need for it.

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    • h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could easily process the audio and filter in on the device and just send the transcribed parts that match your filters for further processing. No need to send a constant audio stream. Eventually it would show up in the battery usage but things like the google song recognition also heavily use the mic and process audio and it doesn’t show up as heavy as you would expect.

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    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok, real question: what exactly would show up in network traffic?

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      • LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Evidence of voice collection and data transmission. Just hook it up to wireshark and test. It’s been done and zero evidence produced

        Btw independent aricle from 2008 heres something a decade fresher androidauthority.com/your-phone-is-not-listening-…

        Why would they need to do it anyway? Far easier to just use the telemetry already there. Your phone knows more about you than you think already. No need to use the microphone.

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