There are exceptional profiling abilities Facebook uses based on physical proximity for friends suggestions, but not aware for advertising.
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Humans exceptionally good at finding patterns or social anomalies, such as when advertising occasionally seems to be keyed off a life event.
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Also doesn't help that social networks (1) want to appear all-knowing to advertisers. (2) appear innocuous to users. Leads to lack of info.
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With the rise of perpetually active microphones, good mobile connectivity, high-quality voice recognition, and vast computing power... (1/2)
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these fears are no longer *physically* impossible on an individual level. But in practice, in the current context, it's not realistic. (2/2)
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Note that there is an app technology that can recognize audio codes embedded in radio and TV. But that's a whole other thing than speech.
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also note: iOS doesn't provide an API for apps to access call audio, and using the mic in background displays a double-height red status bar
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Ah yes, I was interpreting question as in-person audio while using the app
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yeah, foreground apps can use the mic invisibly, which is how those ultrasonic tracking things work (iOS should really indicate this)
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if random apps getting paid for tracking showed a mic icon in the status bar all the time, I get the feeling they'd cut that shit out
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Even moreso if they had to explicitly request access the first time.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
They do have to do that already, but if there's anything stopping them from using it for other stuff afterwards, it's just policy (not tech)
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