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Facebook might quietly use microphone to track ads you watch
(G.N.S) DT.30 A recently published Facebook patent depicts a technology that will silently trigger microphones in a household to listen to users as they watch TV ads. The patent describes a process in which a secret “activation module” embedded in TV ads, like a short, high-frequency sound inaudible to the human ear, would