In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask. In a presentation at \[…\]
Perspective | It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally is astounding.
Facebook is ‘using your phone to listen to everything you say’
The company says that it does use peoples' microphones, but only to help them out – and there’s an easy way of turning it off
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
La Liga was found to be using the microphone and GPS on Android devices during match times.
Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal areas and possessions without compromising their privacy. It is an Android application that leverages on-device sensors to provide monitoring and protection of physical areas. Haven turns any Android phone into a motion, sound, vibration and light detector, watching for unexpected guests and unwanted intruders. We designed Haven for investigative journalists, human rights defenders and people at risk of forced disappearance to create a new kind of herd immunity. By combining the array of sensors found in any smartphone, with the world’s most secure communications technologies, like Signal and Tor, Haven prevents the worst kind of people from silencing citizens without getting caught in the act.
234 Android Applications Are Currently Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users
A team of researchers from the Brunswick Technical University in Germany has discovered an alarming number of Android applications that employ ultrasonic tracking beacons to track users and their nearby environment.
FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones, says Apple
Eddy Cue warns precedent set by San Bernardino case could lead to company being forced to turn users’ smartphones into surveillance devices
Opinion | The Internet of Way Too Many Things (Published 2015)
You may be able to get your phone to project bright colors if your window sensor detects a burglar, but what is protecting you from your phone?
Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You
Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to. The music streaming giant now wants phone sensor information to determine if users are moving or standing still, GPS location, photos, contacts and much more.
How to block the ultrasonic signals you didn’t know were tracking you
Your phone can talk to advertisers beyond your back, beyond your audible spectrum.
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
A clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area is being exposed.
The dawn of trustworthy computing
When we currently use a smart phone or a laptop on a cell network or the Internet, the other end of these interactions typically run on othe...
Is your smartphone listening to you?
Creepy or coincidence - when the net reflects real life a little too closely.
Stop Vibecoding Screen Readers — fireborn
There's a trend on Android right now that is going to get someone hurt. Hurt in the sense of a blind person picking up their phone in the worst possible moment and finding out the thing they depend on to interact with the world has decided to just not work.
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (Published 2018)
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
