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villgaxyesterday at 10:11 AM1 replyview on HN

If this or an accelerometer based recording is what Meta uses to eavesdrop on in-person talk then color me pink


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murderfsyesterday at 10:31 AM

It's pretty unlikely that Meta is actually eavesdropping on your conversations, because it'd be immediately obvious from battery usage. The ability to turn speakers into microphones doesn't help if the speakers aren't actually connected to an ADC, and both of the modern smartphone OSes limit you to on the order of hundreds of samples per second, so it's rather difficult to get anything sensible without either doing a bunch of local analysis or exfiltrating it, both of which would be visible.

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