Matt Blaze on Nostr: Ad networks are at least flirting with technologies that monitor microphones in ...
Ad networks are at least flirting with technologies that monitor microphones in devices to target ads, according to this story: https://www.404media.co/cmg-cox-media-actually-listening-to-phones-smartspeakers-for-ads-marketing/
It's unclear whether this is currently going, but it's very clear it *could*.
What are the legalities here? In particular, is it wiretapping? Can the government get access to data collected this way? My colleagues npub1sdtvw8y3yhksws5jf8ttl45vru06krpuuus2fys3u5exucvc4ywquf96z3 (npub1sdt…96z3), Susan Landau, Stephanie Pell, and I explored this and more a few years ago: https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v30/30HarvJLTech1.pdf
It's unclear whether this is currently going, but it's very clear it *could*.
What are the legalities here? In particular, is it wiretapping? Can the government get access to data collected this way? My colleagues npub1sdtvw8y3yhksws5jf8ttl45vru06krpuuus2fys3u5exucvc4ywquf96z3 (npub1sdt…96z3), Susan Landau, Stephanie Pell, and I explored this and more a few years ago: https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v30/30HarvJLTech1.pdf