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Mitel Forums => Non-Mitel Chatter => Topic started by: ralph on March 23, 2012, 04:38:25 PM

Title: Google wants to know where you are and what you're doing
Post by: ralph on March 23, 2012, 04:38:25 PM

Check this out:
Google applies for a patent for technologies that can tell what you're doing based on the sounds in your background.
They want to do this so they can target ads to what your into at the moment.

Kinda scary.   I'll avoid keeping my phone in my bedroom any more.
Here's more:  www.geekwire.com/2012/google-patents-background-noise-phone-calls-target-ads/ (http://www.geekwire.com/2012/google-patents-background-noise-phone-calls-target-ads/)

Ralph