The Register reports that Google plans to use PC microphones to collect statistics on a user's environment. Peter Norvig, who directs research at Google, told Technology Review that this software would start to show up in Google software 'sooner rather than later'. The software collects short sound clips and removes background noise.
read more | digg story
While this is just in rumor stages, it's still really interesting. They use your own computer to monitor what you're doing, and use it against you. It's one thing if they're scanning my email to advertise to me, but literally coming into my home is a bit much.
No comments:
Post a Comment