But here’s the scary one: A friend was discussing a topic at a table at starbucks one day. It was the first time she ever discussed it in her life. It was a verbal conversation, face to face, with their phones sitting on the table.
Later that day she was getting ads on her phone apps regarding that specific subject. The mic in the phone?
If you have Siri or Alexa on your phone, or use the Google one that comes with an Android, it is indeed listening all the time, whether or not you use it.
I think you can turn it off - I think I did so - but it’s kind of sneaky and hard to get rid of. It’s listening all the time so that you can give it commands, but obviously, it’s picking up a lot of other info and just adding it to its commercial data file on you.
“But here’s the scary one: A friend was discussing a topic at a table at starbucks one day. It was the first time she ever discussed it in her life. It was a verbal conversation, face to face, with their phones sitting on the table.
Later that day she was getting ads on her phone apps regarding that specific subject. The mic in the phone?”
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What? Alexa or Google Assistant listening in? Nah, Amazon and Google would never consider keeping, sharing or exploiting your personal data! That can’t possibly be a significant slice of Google or Amazon’s business models. /SARC
Yep, I’ve had that happen too, and I never use Siri or Alexa, always turned off. Clearly anything spoken around any cell phone is recorded.