Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
Facebook isn’t spying on everything you say. Your data plan would be higher, and your battery life worse, if that were the case.
And yet the conspiracy theory that apps are listening to your in-person conversations and using them to show ads persists. So researchers at Northeastern University decided to look into it, testing 17,000 Android apps and monitoring what kind of information they sent home.
Here’s Kashmir Hill, writing for Gizmodo about their study:
Sorry, conspiracy theorists: They found no evidence of an app unexpectedly activating the microphone or sending audio out when not prompted to do so. Like good scientists, they refuse to say that their study definitively proves that your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but they…
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