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Google’s an ad company. They know more about me than any ten human beings put together, and they use that information to try to advertise things that I’ll buy. Their new patent is about giving them more immediate information about me:

The patent discusses the technology to analyze the background noise during your phone call and serve up ads for you based on the environmental conditions Google picks up on. Yeah, that’s creepy.

From The Next Web, via Ben Brooks.