Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 3, 2006 @11:30AM from the shh-yer-changing-my-ads dept.

seriv writes "The Register reports that Google plans to use PC microphones to collect statistics on a user's environment. Peter Norvig, who directs research at Google, told Technology Review that this software would start to show up in Google software 'sooner rather than later'. The software collects short sound clips and removes background noise. Google then targets its ads based on the statistics collected. With the current level of online privacy, this new level of invasion would seem to have frightening possibilities."

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Re:Let me be the first to say... by SanityInAnarchy · 2006-09-03 18:29 · Score: 0, Troll

There seem to be less and less people taking this seriously, but:

Google has a motto of "Don't be evil." Other search engines don't.

Google did not release data. Other search engines did.

Coincidence?

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