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If you truly want to mute your audio feed, you need to perform a double mute. If you’re fortunate enough to own a headset that has a physical mute button on it, use that to mute your headset and then use the button in the app as an extra layer of muting.
If your headset doesn’t have a physical mute button, or you’re using an onboard microphone to communicate, you’ll need to do a system mute by muting your microphone from the system settings in your operating system, as well as muting in the app.
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Evil Tech At Its Best
Forcing users to go into operating system menus in order to ensure they’re achieving a modicum of privacy is an anti-user policy. And, furthermore, it demonstrates how much more sensitive our audio data can be than our video data.
Don’t forget to double mute! You’ll probably forget to doubl...
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The Usage Of Raw Audio Data
According to the researchers, this data could be used to extract meaningful information. And, with a little machine learning, that information can paint an incredibly vivid picture of a user’s reality — again, even with your microphone muted in the app.
The research team was able to determi...
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The Software Mute Button Is A Sham
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...
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The Troublesome Information
Grad students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were able to build machine learning models capable of determining what a teleconference app user was doing while their microphone was muted with greater than 80% accuracy.
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The Real Concern
Our real concern is that big tech either doesn’t care whether users know they’re being recorded even when they’re muted, or it never stopped to think users would care. Either way, it shows a disturbing level of detachment from the user experience.
Big tech’s unspoken mantra is “data at all ...
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Muting your mic reportedly doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio
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The Mute Button On Your Laptop Isn't Private
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Don’t become a distraction
Be very aware of the power you have over your virtual and physical environments:
- Stay on mute every time you are not speaking and unmute yourself only when you do speak.
- Turn off your camera when you’re doing something visually distracting.
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