Users can trade app-gleaned audio clips that create a user “fingerprint” for Perks.com points through new app Symphony, a privacy trade-off that’s becoming more and more popular, Fusion reports. In a manner akin to music app Shazam or even Facebook, the app collects everything from texts, emails, user TV watching habits and GPS information. “At any point during that process, if they get skittish, they just leave,” said Symphony CEO Charlie Buchwalter, adding that even with the exit door wide open, “more than 60 percent of Symphony’s panelists have let the software run on their phone for longer than six months,” the report states.
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