# Public buses across country quietly adding microphones to record conversations

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**Created:** [21 September 2022 02:19 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/public-buses-across-country-quietly-adding-microphones-to-record-conversations/74496 "2022-09-21T02:19:11Z")\
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> Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations.  
> Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations. The systems are raising a number of privacy and security concerns.

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> **[Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger...](https://www.wired.com/2012/12/public-bus-audio-surveillance/)**
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> Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations. The systems are raising a number of privacy...

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