That’s true. I’m still having trouble internalizing that my multi-hundred-dollar Bose headphones are spying on me. I’ve yet to delete the app, though I should.
Honestly, this is past the shark-jumping point. When I saw that Bose thread yesterday, my initial reaction was "what in the actual fuck?!". I would have never expected a set of wireless headphones to spy on users. I thought this has optics way too close to actual wiretapping for companies to do that, but I guess I should never be surprised by how low adtech industry can get.
Agreed. Considering the headphones have a mic and are used -for sending and receiving the contents of actual phone calls- it’s hard for me to imagine how prying into their data isn’t wiretapping.