Sound Ledger¹: noise, ASMR, privacy

42: Percent of rickshaw drivers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, reporting hearing loss

15: Percent rise in brand awareness after a hair salon franchise employed ASMR to promote itself

300,000: Settlement paid by Whole Foods under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for allegedly using “voice recognition system without properly obtaining consent” of its workers

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¹Footnotes

Rickshaw: thedailystar.net. ASMR: marketingdive.com. Whole Foods: findbiometrics.com.