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đ Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.
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Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk ⢠42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)
Iâm one of those. If it were true youâd get targeted ads for everything your phone hears from TV too.
They totally have data on who you are spending time with. they know your friend went there and know you saw that friend. Thatâs enough I think
I mean, most voice assistants have a way to teach it your voice. I imagine it would be trivial for it to learn your voice vs a TV voice given you are the person around your phone most often and it can eventually isolate your voice in a sea of noise
What they donât have is the bandwidth. Plus it would be super easy to detect.
Process it all locally and someone will notice the battery hit. Process it remotely and someone will notice the bandwidth hit.
If it came out that they were listening in to every conversation, Congress would have an absolute field day. The Democrats wonât like the invasion of privacy and the Republicans would be happy for any excuse to go after âBig Techâ.
Why be obvious when you can quietly get better data? Why would Apple also play along this whole time?
They donât actually listen in on you. That would blow through your battery pretty quick and send a lot of data.
They have even better ways, though.
They can triangulate your location using WiFi. Even if the SSIDs are brand new, they can figure out youâre close to someone by comparing the networks and their RSSIs. If you or the person youâre talking with searched for something or went to a website/app very recently before or after the chat, Google is likely to send you relevant ads.