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by dymk
2503 days ago
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No, none of these apps use your microphone to listen in on you. This has been stated many times in official newsroom posts, and in front of Congress. It has been disproven countless times by simply looking at network traffic of the apps. This is simply a version of the Birthday problem. You consider 100 things during any particular day. Facebook shows you 20 targeted ads in your newsfeed. It'd be a statistical anomaly if they were wrong about every single one of their choices. By pure random chance they're likely to get at least one right every once in a while. |
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I dont have reason to believe the apps are listening. BUT I dont think absence of network traffic alone is enough to disprove it.
They could do all the processing on device, and assign different Trademarks different numbers, and the network traffic would be as simple as ++10456827 ++9814132. The network traffic would be a very easy part to disguise or tuck away with other transactions.
(Googles Pixel 2 Now Playing identifies what song is playing near a microphone, while the device is offline. Its absolutely reasonable that phones could identify trademarked terms without an internet/cellular connection.)