Google to seek patent for listening to phone calls

Google is seeking a patent which if granted will allow them to target ads based on what is going on in the background of your phone calls

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57402997-93/google-looks-to-patent-tech-that-listens-to-calls-to-promote-ads/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

Google is seeking a patent which if granted will allow them to target ads based on what is going on in the background of your phone calls

http://news.cnet.com...&tag=feed&subj=

I seem to remember a time when Google's motto was "Google: Do No Harm". I guess since they joined the stock market, investors are so far up Google's a** now that their new motto should now read: "Google: Where Your Information is Our Information" :D Sounds cynical perhaps, but isn't there some truth to it?

Cheers and thank you for the heads up!

I would love to see google talk their way into the biggest boycott of their services ever. That is if it was even possible to prise them completely out of your life.

I would love to see google talk their way into the biggest boycott of their services ever. That is if it was even possible to prise them completely out of your life.

DITTO!

Thanks so much Hazel. Time to get some demanding, not asking letters out. Google wants to listen to background noise. They haven't heard my bag of tirades waiting just for them.

Imagine the ads they'll send you. Traffic cones, ear plugs, party clowns, baby sitters, dog muzzles, Kleenex, etc.

Wonder what'll happen if someone purposefully makes their backround noise drug deals all of the time... :P

Hi Everyone,

Just an addendum to yesterday's post. You all might already be ahead of me on this but my copy of todays Lawyers and Settlements.com reveals while not yet certified the class action lawsuits they are a-flyin' over privacy violations. Good reading if you would like to subscribe. My contribution for the day in addition to my good friends Corona and Win, the latter I'm certain was wearing that stetson during posting. LOL Take care and a good one to you.

Wonder what'll happen if someone purposefully makes their backround noise drug deals all of the time... :P

They could send ads for buying "meds" from Canada or Mexico, which is illegal anyways.

They got busted for that last year! :lol: