Monday, January 15, 2018

TRACKING THROUGH CELL MICROPHONE AND ULTRASONIC SIGNALS

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/block-ultrasonic-signals-didnt-know-tracking/ampAnother way to grab your location and listen to every sound in your vicinity. In the featured article, Lily Hay Newman, the author of “HOW TO BLOCK THE ULTRASONIC SIGNALS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WERE TRACKING YOU” states:

“Dystopian corporate surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to create personalized user profiles so they can (maybe) show us ads we'll actually click. Now marketers have been experimenting with combining those web-based and audio approaches to track consumers in another disturbingly science fictional way: with audio signals your phone can hear, but you can't.”

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