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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
(www.the-independent.com)
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Oh look, they're all shitty games that hook people like gambling sites. Whoever would have thought!
Fuck that. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Instagram, TikTok, etc., are all spying on everyone.
But those apps don't use the microphone, or have a plausible excuse to use the microphone, so it's okay!
(This is sarcasm. It's not okay.)