{"id":2039,"date":"2017-10-03T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2017-10-03T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T11:13:27","slug":"indianapolis-colts-lose-first-round-in-battle-over-beacon-eavesdropping-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/indianapolis-colts-lose-first-round-in-battle-over-beacon-eavesdropping-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts Lose First Round In Battle Over Beacon &#8216;Eavesdropping&#8217; App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/308122\/colts-lose-round-in-battle-over-eavesdropping-ap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article on DigitalNewsDaily<\/a> about the Indianapolis Colts where a federal judge has ruled that the basketball team must face a lawsuit alleging that the team&#8217;s mobile app eavesdropped on fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The app activates phones&#8217; microphones in order to listen to Lisnr&#8217;s beacons&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be clear, these <strong>aren&#8217;t<\/strong> Bluetooth beacons. Instead, <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisnr<\/a> uses beacons emitting audio to trigger events in an app:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;LISNR is an ultrasonic audio technology \u2014 a communication protocol that uses inaudible sound, called Smart Tones\u2122, to transmit information.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike with Bluetooth beacons, this necessarily uses the smartphones&#8217; microphone to detect the audio beacons. Had the Colts used Bluetooth Beacons, there would have been no issue over whether microphone listening was being used for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article on DigitalNewsDaily about the Indianapolis Colts where a federal judge has ruled that the basketball team must face a lawsuit alleging that the team&#8217;s mobile app eavesdropped on fans. &#8220;The app activates phones&#8217; microphones in order to listen to Lisnr&#8217;s beacons&#8221; To be clear, these aren&#8217;t Bluetooth beacons. Instead, Lisnr uses beacons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/indianapolis-colts-lose-first-round-in-battle-over-beacon-eavesdropping-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indianapolis Colts Lose First Round In Battle Over Beacon &#8216;Eavesdropping&#8217; App&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}