Turn off your Microphone, Google is Listening

Just read a post on Download Squad about Google developing a spy software which catlogs background sounds while your chatting over voice using [Image]Microphone and server ads based on those sounds, which mean if your sitting in a chicken farm, it will serves ads on based Chicken. Isn’t this weird ? Google is trying to extract each piece of information about us. Do we still need those kinda ads ?

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This post was published by on September 6, 2006

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  • http://synful.info sindhu

    geez, hope they dont peek into our garbage dump once,…
    privacy is no more. google is watching over you !

  • http://synful.info sindhu

    “ads based chicken” ??? t.bot dont you think there is a serious grammatical mistake ???? a preposition or a comma, perhaps?

  • http://ryanslife.net Ryan

    Although I think this is pretty stupid, it would have to be an opt-in program because if you’re in by default then Google will get into a lot of trouble with people not too happy knowing that Google is listening to them.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ryan: It may be a opt-in, but who would opt in for ads ? it doesn’t make any sense to me

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Syn: Sorry dear, but this what happens if I start blogging with coffee. Anyway I have corrected the error.

    Thanks for pointing it out. BTW Munna Bhai was too cool, its worth a watch

  • Tdaw

    this isnt bs… i just said “school, learn, college, university, university, learn, learn etc…” over and over, than watched a random youtube video and it showed an add for a university…. im freaked now, how do i disable my built in microphone

  • Tdaw

    this isnt bs… i just said “school, learn, college, university, university, learn, learn etc…” over and over, than watched a random youtube video and it showed an add for a university…. im freaked now, how do i disable my built in microphone

  • Dillonlewis

    for some wild reason every time I tried to diable my internal mic I got an error message and it would let me. So I took my lap top apart and tore the damn thing out