If I remember correctly, Color is eventually planning to passively gather audio information as you walk around in order to better know where you're at and what you're doing. Wouldn't it be funny if it was the app causing this?
They do this already. It allows the phone to detect whether you're in the same place as someone else: if two phones are hearing similar sound, then you're likely to be next to each other. Color shows you photos taken by people near you. Audio is one signal for detecting who's near.
Note: GPS sometimes doesn't work indoors, where there's no line of sight to the satellites in the sky. Cell towers and Wi-Fi work, but aren't as precise.
Huh. Depending on what they do with the audio input, that might be illegal in Massachusetts. (Our wiretap law requires all parties to consent, and it applies to any covert audio recording, not just phone conversations.)
