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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

www.the-independent.com

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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

www.the-independent.com

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Your smartphone is listening to you

www.the-independent.com

Software from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching

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These type of articles never list the apps they’re discussing.

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