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Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands by buro9 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @04:25PM (#17042641)
Er... holy shit to the thought that (Alexa|Assistant|Siri) + Neilsen (or just by Google) could monitor advert viewing in millions of homes.
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Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands by taneq on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:09PM (#17044273)
I thought a few apps had been discovered over the years that fingerprinted TV ads played near the phone and reported them?

https://www.howtogeek.com/338409/hundreds-of-smartphone-apps...

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Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands by jsjohnst on Friday May 11, 2018 @09:20AM (#17047086)
To scare you further, multiple brands and models of “SmartTVs” have the ability to fingerprint what is displayed on the screen and report back to a cloud service. Said services are also, not surprisingly, poorly secured.
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