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> Not sure I'm looking forward to a continual game of "guess when it's a robot".

Something that already happens on dating services, for example. And makes one cynical.

> hasn't broken the law on a catastrophic scale yet

Debatable?

This [1] submission and the associated HN discussion collects the reasons this was being thought about as a possibility.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13358478

This[1] article from December points to a lawsuit reported by Bloomberg allegging that Marc Andreessen helped Zuckerberg push a measure through a special committee of shareholders that would allow him to maintain "voting control of the company, even if he sells most of his stock".

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-may-be-eyeing...

From some quick digging I did in a Github repo attempting to reverse-engineer the 'audio beacons', the frequencies used by at least one startup using the technique are in the 18kHz range[1].

https://github.com/MAVProxyUser/SilverPushUnmasked/commit/bc...

Does Android have a similar indicator for background apps recording audio?

I'm wondering what "the release of zinc at the time of fertilization is a conserved phenomenon" means. Maybe that is relevant?