Posted on 03/22/2019 12:34:25 PM PDT by Twotone
HAVE you ever been talking about a pair of trainers or holiday destination, and then suddenly seen an advert for that precise thing pop up on social media?
Us too. As incredible as it sounds, it might be because our phones are secretly spying on us.
It's a question I've been asking for a while after seeing adverts for things I've been talking about - but not searching - popping up on my phone.
While we are all used to targeted ads - seeing pictures of things we've just searched for appearing in ad spaces on the websites we visit after - many people think advertisers and phone companies are taking this one step further.
If voice recognition apps like Siri and Bixby are always listening for commands, is it really beyond the realm of possibility that they are also sending ads our way based on what we're talking about?
While tech giants including Facebook and Apple vehemently deny they are using phones to listen into customers' conversations and then sell the data onto advertisers, I wasn't so sure I believed them.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Sometimes it seems like things you think about come up in these ads.
When I’m not using it, I place it next to the radio and let them listen to Rush or Hannity,
That is tracking of your phone location, so be sure to turn off the GPS and wifi as well.
When the Lockheed L-1011 went down in Dallas due to the microburst in the 1980’s, there were people pulling off the freeway to grab luggage and stuff.
The aircraft is burning and people are dead and dying and there were people whose first thought was to steal.
I don’t know how many but I heard this story long ago.
LOL. Spoken like someone who doesn’t understand the technology they carry...or perhaps you don’t. And if you turn it off except when YOU want to make a call (assuming that did work - and it doesn’t- which is why I still couldn’t take it into the SCIF even if I turned it off)- it does you no good as a receiver when folks want to call you-assuming you have people who may want to talk to you. But again, that doesn’t work. That’s why they make you keep it outside of secure areas. They’re not worried about you turning it into a microphone-they’re worried about someone else doing it-even when it’s off. I have seen it demonstrated in an OPSEC class.
Find an on-fire preacher of God on the radio.
Just saying.
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Given that, why should I invest in a smart phone? Answer: I didn't. I have an Alcatel flip phone and it does everything I need.
I first noticed this in 2014 and got some week grins form people in my industry, now it’s pretty much a given that thay are always listening.
If you want actual privacy turn off the phone and put it in the freezer or microwave while you talk
LOL, I get freaked out when I go shop at Wal-Mart and a few minutes after I checkout my phone beeps with a message asking me how I enjoyed my trip to Wal-Mart.
I had one cellphone that could NOT be shut off during a phone call. Fortunately I had purchased 2 on sale. It was the most bizarre thing. You could NOT disconnect / hang up. You could push the power button and eventually it would go dark. I finally gave up on it.
That first one has been sitting without a battery for about a year now.
It’s the Phase 2 that’s most difficult!
That’s a great one. I’m grabbing that link!
How can it be ‘lost’ if they know where it is?...................
Yes, it has provably happened to me.
It was spooky.
I read a bunch of Mario Puzo books years ago and one of the things that he wrote about quite frequently was how the Cosa Nostra would never use the phone. If they had any “business” dealings it was always face-to-face no phone.
In the military when you’re in foreign ports or having casual conversation there were/are certain things that you are not supposed to talk about because you don’t know who is listening and sometimes you might not even know who you’re talking to... It’s called OPSEC.
The funny thing about OPSEC is that a lot of people that work in government, not the military, but in government really don’t care who they’re talking to or what they’re talking about. They completely ignore OPSEC and think nothing of it.
HRC was a prime example of ignoring OPSEC, she lived and breathed security violations like it was something akin to burning her bra in the 60s.
The every day military puke is keelhauled first and then drawn and quartered slowly if they so much as breathe ignorance of OPSEC. But federal workers are for some reason completely immune to the Crime and Punishment in regards to their security infractions. It’s sickening really.
Next would be the Press. For ages they used to have to beg the Press not to release something that was highly classified. And for the most part editors back during the WWII complied. But now I don’t think they would. The media wants the scoop so damn bad they don’t care who or what gets killed because they let out information that was classified.
If they don't know that I made the purchase then they can't be that tied into my accounts.
They don’t even load a probably calculated amount of economy luggage. They just ship it straight to their warehouse.I won’t say how I know this but I do know it.
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