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Re:Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonst... by megous on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:27PM (#42268985)
Yeah, we're well past a point where "phones" have NPUs powerful enough to locally process "sensor" input and produce decontextualized probabilties of potential interests.

It's going to happen sooner or later and people will accept it, just like they accepted training of AI models on copyrighted works without permission, or SaaS, or AWS/PaaS, or sending all their photos to Apple/Google (for "backup").

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Re:Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonst... by ch4s3 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:10PM (#42269929)
I really question the commercial value of that kind of data. Credit card data has a lot more to do with intent to make future purchases than any keyword you might spit out verbally or in a search engine.
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