Is someone eavesdropping on your phone conversations?
A new feature on Apple iPhones allows other people to listen to your phone calls.
With an iPhone, the latest operating system and a pair of Apple AirPods, you'll your very own surveillance kit.
A new feature in Apple's latest operating system, which was originally designed to help hearing-impaired Apple customers, can also be used to eavesdrop on other people's conversations.
Apple's Live Listen feature enhances your hearing when you place your iPhone close to a speaker you can't properly hear. You can use this with your earpods when in-ear, but there's also a capabilty to place your earpod in a room of people and listen to their conversations in another room, or up to 15m away.
This new feature has many people worried that it can be used for spying purposes, so keep a lookout for random earpods laying around.
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Get used to it. In the not too distant future we will all be controlled by computers in some way. Gosh many of us will be half human/half machine.
The new iphones can phone 000 when you have a heart attack giving your location.
From Leon's post and other reading, I think it is the latest "Live Listen" earpod spying capability that has people talking.
... there's also a capabilty to place your earpod in a room of people and listen to their conversations in another room, or up to 15m away. This new feature has many people worried that it can be used for spying purposes, so keep a lookout for random earpods laying around.
:) Great way to surreptitiously to hear what others really say/think. But ... maybe that's knowledge we'd be better off without LOL. Secret listening surveillance for little cost. Very Spy Vs Spy.
Apparently, you can pick up any 'real' conversations, not just phone calls.
Seems everything listens to you these days TV/Fridge/phone -- you name it everything "smart" can hear you