Posted on 05/08/2017 11:57:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Popular apps downloaded by millions of people are always on the look out for clandestine broadcasts which order them to begin snooping on citizens
SECRET messages hidden in television adverts can order smartphones to quietly spy on their owners.
Thats the shocking revelation in a new piece of research which exposes the scary snooping techniques corporations are using to pry into ordinary peoples lives in unprecedented detail.
Television adverts can order a smartphone to begin surveilling its owner A team of German academics have noticed a huge growth in the number of Android apps that are designed to look out for inaudible ultrasonic signals.
These signals contain a code which orders the apps to begin tracking peoples location, work out what they are watching on television and even expose intimate secrets about their personal life, such as their political affiliation or love of pornography.
They have alleged that multinational corporations such as Krispy Kreme and McDonalds have fitted the snooping software within apps.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
I just got a new phone and I have tried to delete certain “apps.” However, I’m not knowledgeable enough to get to where the defaults are kept, and under which names.
I hate Goober.
Precisely
Hmm mm
"MMMmmmm, donuts" Homer Simpson, American philosopher and icon.
Discounts and instant rewards? Knowing the latest number and style patterns of sprinkles on Krispy Kreme donuts or the latest additions to the McDonald's menu? Who knows what might be important to snowflakes.
Easy way to test this.
Leave your phone in a room with a TV tuned to Univision for several days.
If you start getting bombarded with ads in Spanish, they’re busted.
PING!
Does Windows 10 do this? I bet it is baked in.
Find out exactly when hot, fresh doughnuts are coming off the line Locate the nearest Krispy Kreme shop, wherever you are Invite friends through text messaging to join you at your favorite Krispy Kreme shop Receive a FREE DOUGHNUT just for signing up Earn sweet rewards that get sweeter the more you visit Learn about limited-time doughnuts and drinks See fun, new surprises when you open the app
Words fail me.
This was inevitable. Once everyone wanted their phone to be their miniature home computer as well as dgital camera, we lost any hope of privacy left to us. When I was an Assembler language programmer at the dawn of the PC era, I saw this coming. Just a matter of time until chips would be improved to work faster and store more data.
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