January 6, 2012

Steve Jobs isn't dead, and neither are his spies

Sometimes what seems completely unnecessary (and kind of scary) can still have an actual function. Shopping rewards app ShopKick, for example, appears to turn on your microphone and record audio without you knowing about it. If you installed this shopping rewards app, you probably didn't notice or think much about the permissions setting that allowed ShopKick to record audio and take pictures. ShopKick's privacy policy suggests the company is using that recorded information to tell if you're listening to a commercial or show on TV—maybe to tell more about you so it can tailor the discounts or ads it sends you. Yes, that's creepy. But ShopKick's audio listening may also serve a necessary purpose—to listen for a tone within a store (inaudible to us) so it can tell if you're in a participating store, according to the New York Times.

taken from:
http://lifehacker.com/5864518/is-my-phone-spying-on-me-and-what-can-i-do-about-it

So I was thinking that I was wanting to get another iphone, then I stumbled across this article and decided that steve jobs  probably isn't really dead and that he's coming up with new was to control the world from some underground bunker somewhere. Using our   phones to hear our conversations and settle his lonely spirit.


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