easy to test. men can say "tampons glitter lotion" several times a day. women say "garage exhaust cable".

Title is basically clickbait given it's Cox Media Group doing this, not Facebook. They're partnered with a bunch of companies.

For everyone saying apps need permission to use your mic I want to point you to "play services". The permissions protections only apply to user space apps not system apps. Thats how u can say "OK google" and get the chat ai to pop up even tho its "not listening" according to the OS.

Also if you read the website they are not piping audio to their servers. They push triggers (keywords, etc) to the local ai on your phone that listens for things like "OK google" and then sends those reports back.

Meta apps would need permission to to mic but I think if y'all check your big tech apps u will be surprised how many have that permission.

I can't speak to iOS because its closed source but it probably has similar backdoors for apple.

What ? A corporation that earn money in selling personal data, that don't want to share its code that run on a device with a microphone, actually use it ? I'm shocked

Ngl man I'm not buying it. With all the protections in mobile OSes against this exact kind of thing it straight up doesn't seem possible

Shocked, I tell you!