Your phone may be picking up wi-if at medical facility and is being tracked.
We were in a restaurant last week and 30 minutes afer we left, I received a survey asking how my meal and the service was. I didn’t use my phone while we were there!
A guy I work for had his phone in his pocket while talking to a neighbor. The guy was interested in buying a riding lawn mower and asking the neighbor all sorts of questions about his.
Later he went inside on his computer and got on the net. All sorts of ads came up for riding mowers - yet his discussion with the neighbor was the first he had said or done anything about getting one!
He said he figures the phone must have some sort of “Alexa” thing going on but he said he never uses the voice software - he figured there must be some way to turn it off.
After years of my wife and kids begging me to "get up to date," I traded in my old flip phone for a Smart phone a couple of months ago. My wife and I went to a small café with an outside patio where we ate. When we got home I found a receipt for out meal in my e-mail. I had my phone on me at the time but didn't use it. WTH! How did they get my e-mail address?