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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones (www.the-independent.com)
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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

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.)