Muting your mic doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio

Anytime you use a video teleconferencing app, you’re sending your audio data to the company hosting the services. And, according to a new study, that means all of your audio data. This includes voice and background noise whether you’re broadcasting or muted. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison investigated “many popular apps” to determine the extent that video conferencing apps capture data while users employ the in-software ‘mute’ button. According to a university press release, their findings were substantial: They used runtime binary analysis tools to trace raw audio in popular video conferencing applications as the audio traveled from the…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/muting-your-mic-doesnt-stop-big-tech-recording-your-audio