Google to Spy on Your Phone Calls Now...

[Renegade]

It never stops... Now Google will spy on your phone call background noise... yeah... sure... just the background noise... right...

Well, that and everything else under the sun...

http://www.dailymail...nds-phone-calls.html

Adverts could soon be tailored according to the background noise around you when using your smartphone, if a patent application by Google becomes reality.

The search engine giant has filed for a patent called ‘Advertising based on environmental conditions’.

As that title implies, it’s not just background sounds that could be used to determine what adverts you seen on your mobile phone. The patent also describes using ‘temperature, humidity, light and air composition’ to produced targeted adverts.

I wonder if they'll also be reporting on that to their CIA masters... 

I really want a new mobile OS that doesn't turn my phone into a spy.

[vlastimil]

Well, ignoring the privacy thing, the patent makes me angry. How can something like this be patentable? Isn't there supposed to be something non-obvious in a patent? More and more patents seem to be related to the "what to do" question instead of the "how to do it" question.

[nosh]

The possibilities are endless! 

We hear public transportation- care for a little loan (and some dignity?)
Gold Gym! - someone just called u a little bitch
that sounded bad!! -  diarrhea meds?

Can u blame me for laughing at this insanity? 

[mahesh2k]

I feel like starting a troll meme with title (inside spoiler).

Spoiler

Patents are for pussies

[Renegade]

Can u blame me for laughing at this insanity? 

-nosh (March 23, 2012, 08:22 AM)

Nope.

It gets stupider and stupider every day. It's an accelerating downward spiral. What can you do? Laughter seems like a good way to maintain one's sanity!

[app103]

Anybody remember this? It's just a matter of time. 

[nosh]

What can you do? Laughter seems like a good way to maintain one's sanity!

-Renegade (March 23, 2012, 10:21 AM)

What else you got? You Got NOTHIN!!!
[NSFW, but quite symbolic  ) ]

[joiwind]

It'll be when Google starts seriously working on robots that I will really begin to worry... that reminds me of a film 

[Carol Haynes]

Anybody remember this? It's just a matter of time.  

-app103 (March 23, 2012, 10:32 AM)

Interesting - can't see that in the UK!

Is this the same one - if so I want the chair NOW!! (Even if it does whisper at me)

[tomos]

Is this the same one -

-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 12:01 PM)

yes, same one but just the animation is on app's link
(for once I can see something on youtube that others cant!)

- if so I want the chair NOW!! (Even if it does whisper at me)

-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 12:01 PM)

cool chair all right!

[rgdot]

I want to patent the way you hold a cell when you are talking or typing (Hands "r" us corp. patent number 666666)

[4wd]

It never stops... Now Google will spy on your phone call background noise... yeah... sure... just the background noise... right...

-Renegade (March 23, 2012, 07:46 AM)

Just one more reason to keep watching pr0n while making phone calls....except now I can turn the sound up and have a legitimate excuse.

[Carol Haynes]

What no one has pointed out is that a good quality phone should not pick up the background noise to analyse!

[rgdot]

What no one has pointed out is that a good quality phone should not pick up the background noise to analyse!

-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)

With iPhone's popularity everybody is conditioned to know such a thing does not exist 

[Renegade]

What no one has pointed out is that a good quality phone should not pick up the background noise to analyse!

-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)

With iPhone's popularity everybody is conditioned to know such a thing does not exist 

-rgdot (March 23, 2012, 08:58 PM)

Not quite.

Remember that Google is writing a mobile OS... Big thing there.

For background noise removal, all that happens AFTER the mic. So it's pretty much trivial to get the full mic, find the background noise and analyse it, then process the sound to remove the background noise for the normal phone call.

Oh, and did you know that the same thing is going on in other consumer electronics? (Yeah... the rabbit hole goes down pretty deep...)