{"id":221203,"date":"2026-03-06T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/this-jammer-wants-to-block-always-listening-ai-wearables-it-probably-wont-work\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:30:09","slug":"this-jammer-wants-to-block-always-listening-ai-wearables-it-probably-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/this-jammer-wants-to-block-always-listening-ai-wearables-it-probably-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/deveillance-spectre-i\/\">This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won\u2019t Work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/deveillance-spectre-i\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/deveillance-spectre-i\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 18:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Deveillance also claims the Spectre can find nearby microphones by detecting radio frequencies (RF), but critics say finding a microphone via RF emissions is not effective unless the sensor is immediately beside it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIf you could detect and recognize components via RF the way Spectre claims to, it would literally be transformative to technology,\u201d Jordan wrote in a text to WIRED after he built a device to test detecting RF signatures in microphones. \u201cYou\u2019d be able to do radio astronomy in Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Deveillance is also looking at ways to integrate nonlinear junction detection (NLJD), a very high-frequency radio signal used by security professionals to find hidden mics and bugs. NLJD detectors are expensive and used primarily in professional contexts like military operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Even if a device could detect a microphone&#8217;s exact location, objects around a room can change how the frequencies spread and interact. The emitted frequencies could also be a problem. There haven\u2019t been adequate studies to show what effects ultrasonic frequencies have on the human ear, but some people and many pets can hear them and find them obnoxious or even painful. Baradari acknowledges that her team needs to do more testing to see how pets are affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThey simply cannot do this,\u201d engineer and YouTuber Dave Jones (who runs the channel EEVblog) wrote in an email to WIRED. \u201cThey are using the classic trick of using wording to imply that it will detect every type of microphone, when all they are probably doing is scanning for Bluetooth audio devices. It&#8217;s totally lame.\u201d Baradari reiterates that the Spectre uses a combination of RF and Bluetooth low energy to detect microphones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">WIRED asked Baradari to share any evidence of the Spectre&#8217;s effectiveness at identifying and blocking microphones in a person&#8217;s vicinity. Baradari shared a few short videoclips of people putting their phones to their ears listening to audioclips\u2014which were presumably jammed by the Spectre\u2014but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/deveillance-spectre-i\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. 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