Google has the technology to spy on your background ambient "noise".

[cheeple]

http://www.infowars.com/you-read-it-...ound-spy-tech/

Content from external source:

Six years ago Google was planning to use the ambient background noise of a person’s environment to spy on their activities in order to direct targeted advertising at them through technological devices. That has now come to fruition with the search engine giant filing a petition for “Advertising based on environmental conditions.”




In other words, Google is going to spy on your private conversations, music preferences, TV watching habits, your choice of radio station, and whatever else is happening in your immediate environment, in order to build a psychological profile of your entire life.
The current patent relates to smart phones, but any Inter-connected device could ultimately be used for the same purpose.
In 2006, Google was already finalizing plans to spy on an individual’s ambient background environment by means of the microphone embedded in their personal computer.
Google’s efforts to spy on users via their cell phones is part of the wider move towards the ‘Internet of things’ where virtually every technological appliance will be connected to the web, opening a pandora’s box of surveillance opportunities.

CIA Director David Petraeus recently lauded this development as “transformational” because it would open up a world of new opportunities for “clandestine tradecraft."

Petraeus also told attendees at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, that
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters—all connected to the next-generation Internet using abundant, low cost, and high-power computing—the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing,”

You can also read a mainstream media article on Google Ambient Noise Technology by clicking below:
Dailymail.uk

[MikeC]

Shouldn't be this in an "old news" section rather than conspiracy, since it was flagged publically 6 years ago??

[Gunguy45]

Oh my lord......aren't there enough enough conspiracy sites out there?

Yep...as I suspected...copy and paste from Infowars.

Sorry...my life is too short to deal with this sort of stuff. I'm sure Mick or Jay will pull up a link that shows this has already been refuted.

Sorry...or MikeC?

[Mick]

Patents are one thing, Google actually doing it is quite another.

But I'm not sure what's to debunk here - other than the lack of evidence of anyone implementing the technology in the patent? Are you just saying you don't like this? Or that something is being covered up?

This isn't a forum for just pointing out things you don't like. Nor is it a forum for re-posting random Infowars articles. Make some salient point please.

[cheeple]

Patents are one thing, Google actually doing it is quite another.

But I'm not sure what's to debunk here - other than the lack of evidence of anyone implementing the technology in the patent? Are you just saying you don't like this? Or that something is being covered up?

This isn't a forum for just pointing out things you don't like. Nor is it a forum for re-posting random Infowars articles. Make some salient point please.

I can delete it if you like, but if you look at the above comments theres already a non believer.

[Unregistered]

Patents are one thing, Google actually doing it is quite another.

But I'm not sure what's to debunk here - other than the lack of evidence of anyone implementing the technology in the patent? Are you just saying you don't like this? Or that something is being covered up?

This isn't a forum for just pointing out things you don't like. Nor is it a forum for re-posting random Infowars articles. Make some salient point please.

Why would they bother patenting something if they plan to never use (and never would as that would trascend their ethical boundaries(!)).

I have heard people reporting Google listening to them through their microphone and giving them advertisements to match, I guess there's no way to debunk this?

[Mick]

Why would they bother patenting something if they plan to never use (and never would as that would trascend their ethical boundaries(!)).

I have heard people reporting Google listening to them through their microphone and giving them advertisements to match, I guess there's no way to debunk this?

Millions of things are patented, but never used. But in this case it's quite likely the several things in the patent WILL be used, if you read the patent it's not about listening to what you say, it's about determining what type of environment you are in. The audio it will listent to is audio directly given by the user in a voice query - like "GOOGLE: Nearby Starbucks", and it uses the background audio (and other sensors on the device) to determine what type of environment they are in - like on a train, at a sporting event, at a party, in a car, inside/outside, etc.

Already they get your location whenever you do a mobile search. I don't see this as being any less invasive, and it will be something you'd have to allow usage off. Google are pretty careful about privacy - as it's really in their interests for people to trust them.

[JeffreyNotGeoffrey]

Besides if you are on the internet your proclivities are well documented by various businesses. Many websites use cookies to track on the site and off. The example of Google hearing something was bad. If he was logged into Google Google knows his gender and possibly where he lives based on given sign up info and IP address. Not to mention his searches on Google. You really have to try to not be monitored somewhat on the web, like blocking all cookies and masking your IP or stealing unsecure wifi (bad). I just deal with it and routinely use Adaware and Spybot to keep things moderately clean.

[JeffreyNotGeoffrey]

Also to build on what Mick wrote, companies often patent an idea or item for POSSIBLE future use. An example is that Apple probably patented several concepts and features used by the iPhone including itself. They probably patented several features that were later dropped. It makes sense to reserve a concept one's soul exploitation to have an edge in business.