Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones::undefined

      • piecat@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        There’s a dozen ways they could jump the air gap.

        Ultrasonic to a phone or Alexa/Siri/etc, connect to an unsecured network, send data to a neighbor’s smart TV which is connected to Internet, Bluetooth or other to a phone

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          2 years ago

          That would add a ludicrous amount of cost to the device in both material cost and R&D. It’s so incredibly unlikely that any company would make that investment just to spy on the conversations of ordinary citizens when there are far cheaper and easier ways for them to build and sell advertising profiles.

    • hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It would show the encrypted out bound traffic right? You wouldn’t be able to identify it by reading the bits, but you could by the volume and not doing anything else.

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        2 years ago

        Maybe. They might do some processing locally and just upload as text so it might be easy to batch the data, making the upload volume and pattern less obvious.

        It also saves them network bandwidth so I’m sure that would motivate them too. Uploading raw mic data from all TVs would be expensive.