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  • Your computer microphone still listens even on mute – Try this trick

    04/18/2022 11:12:55 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 68 replies
    Kim Komando ^ | 16 April 2022 | Charlie Fripp
    With many people working remotely, everybody should by now know how to behave when in a Zoom or Microsoft Teams meeting. Your camera picks up every move even when you think no one is watching, and your microphone can catch the faintest of sounds. Most people assume that muting their computer’s microphone gives them total privacy. That should be the case, but it’s not.Read on to find out how your microphone is sneakily still listening to everything you say.Here’s the backstoryResearchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered that your device’s microphone continues to listen even after hitting the mute switch.While...
  • Facebook Launches NSA-Style Auto-Eavesdropping Feature

    05/22/2014 8:57:09 AM PDT · by mojito · 15 replies
    ZeroHedge ^ | 5/21/2014 | Tyler Durden
    I hope there are people who love the feature and post more," says Facebook's product manager excitedly about the new feature they just added. We suspect people will not... As The WSJ reports, starting Wednesday, the app has the ability to recognize music and television shows playing in the vicinity of users. Read that again... 'in the vicinity of users'. In other words, Facebook is unveiling its own NSA-style eavesdropping feature (on you and all your friends). Don't worry though... even if users decide not to share what they’re hearing or watching, Facebook will hold onto the data in anonymous...