Facebook seeks patent on tech that turns on your smartphone microphone
 

Facebook seeks patent on tech that turns on your smartphone microphone
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To hear Facebook tell it, no one at the company is secretly using your phone's microphone to listen in on your conversations for the purpose of ad targeting.*

But that doesn't mean they aren't open to the possibility.*

A patent application filed by the Menlo Park-based *company details a convoluted process to trigger users' devices to record the ambient audio surrounding them — be that your conversation or the sounds in your bedroom — and then send some form of data based on that recording back to the company. *

And yeah, it's creepy as hell.*

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