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2. Covert listening device - Wikipedia

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   During World War II, the Nazis took over a Berlin brothel, Salon Kitty, and used concealed microphones to spy on patrons. Also during the war, the British used covert listening devices to monitor captured German fighter pilots being held at Trent Park. In the late 1970s, a bug was discovered in a meeting room at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna.

3. Cellphone surveillance - Wikipedia

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   Cellphone surveillance (also known as cellphone spying) may involve tracking, bugging, monitoring, eavesdropping, and recording conversations and text messages on mobile phones. [1] It also encompasses the monitoring of people's movements, which can be tracked using mobile phone signals when phones are turned on.

4. Voice-operated switch - Wikipedia

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   In telecommunications, a voice operated switch, also known as VOX or voice-operated exchange, is a switch that operates when sound over a certain threshold is detected. [1] It is usually used to turn on a transmitter or recorder when someone speaks and turn it off when they stop speaking.

5. 'Hey Siri, are you recording?': Apple agrees to pay $95M to ...

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   Apple has agreed to pay $95 million in a class action lawsuit to users who say some of their conversations were unwittingly recorded and shared by the company's voice-activated Siri assistant.

6. The Thing (listening device) - Wikipedia

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   The device, embedded in a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States, was used by the Soviet government to spy on the US. On August 4, 1945, several weeks before the end of World War II , a delegation from the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union presented the bugged carving to Ambassador Harriman, as a "gesture of ...

7. Voice-activated radio-dispatched alarm - Wikipedia

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   A voice-activated radio-dispatched alarm, or VARDA-alarm, is a type of burglar alarm that, when activated or "tripped", broadcasts the type of the alarm and the transmitter location over the local police radio frequency using a pre-recorded audio message. [1] In 1968, the voice-activated radio dispatched alarm (VARDA), was invented.