Tag: Recorded

24 FEB

FBI wiretaps reportedly recorded University of Arizona head coach discussing $100,000 payment to land a top high school recruit

According to an ESPN report, FBI wiretaps recorded University of Arizona head basketball coach Sean Miller discussing a payment of $ 100,000 in order to ensure the signing of a top recruit. The news is just the latest to break from the ongoing FBI probe into bribery and corruption within college basketball. When an Arizona […]

18 FEB

James Bond 25: Has this chart-topping musician ALREADY recorded the theme song?

The star has scored gargantuan sales with his most recent album Divide, and would be a logical step for producers after they chose Adele and Sam Smith for the past two movies. What’s more, Sheeran is a hot tip with bookies to land the coveted gig. Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “It’s probably one of […]

17 DEC

Uber secretly recorded phone calls with its employees without their permission, explosive letter claims

Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images There are a lot of explosive claims in a recently unsealed letter written by a lawyer for a former Uber intelligence manager. One claim is that Uber secretly recorded “listening session” calls that were supposed to be anonymous.  Uber conducted over 200 “listening sessions” in response to a blog post by former […]

13 DEC

Lawsuit based on a surreptitiously recorded phone call claims Google doesn’t refund advertisers who spend money on fraudulent clicks (GOOG)

Justin Sullivan / Getty Staff Google is being sued by an ad management company, AdTrader, that claims it does not refund advertisers whose money is spent on invalid or fraudulent clicks. The lawsuit is based in part on a surreptitiously taped phone call, in which a Google employee explains why AdTrader is being kicked off […]

11 NOV

Connected sex toys recorded intimate sessions without consent

Days ago, a Redditor discovered that their Lovense remote control app was unknowingly recording audio of a six-minute intimate session between the user and their significant other. It happened while they used the app to control the Lovense vibrator it’s paired with, and it saved the recording to a local file buried in the phone’s […]

13 OCT

The Google Home Mini secretly recorded peoples’ conversations and played into a big fear about smart speakers (GOOG, AMZN)

 The concept of a smart speaker like the Amazon Echo is a bit creepy. When it first came out, many people were wary of a device designed to listen in on them. When no major privacy problems with the device surfaced, Amazon’s smart speaker became a surprise hit product.  Google hasn’t been so lucky. Reports that […]

06 SEP

‘May God protect us all’: Most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded makes landfall in the Caribbean

NOAA ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — Hurricane Irma roared into the Caribbean with record-setting force early Wednesday, shaking people in their homes on the islands of Antigua and Barbuda on a path toward Puerto Rico and possibly Florida by the weekend. Irma, which was the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded north of the Caribbean and […]

28 JUL

Stealthy Google Play apps recorded calls and stole e-mails and texts

Enlarge (credit: portal gda) Google has expelled 20 Android apps from its Play marketplace after finding they contained code for monitoring and extracting users’ e-mail, text messages, locations, voice calls, and other sensitive data. The apps, which made their way onto about 100 phones, exploited known vulnerabilities to “root” devices running older versions of Android. […]

26 JUL

Despacito star Luis Fonsi once recorded a duet with Spice Girl Emma Bunton: LISTEN

Back in 2004, he appeared on the second album of former Spice Girl Emma Bunton. The track, Amazing, was the only duet Bunton included on Free Me, which came with influences of bossa nova and jazz-pop. The record peaked at No7 in the UK upon its release, and spawned a string of her most popular […]