“I swear something is listening to me. And I don’t have Amazon or Alexa. Maybe it’s my phone.”
That’s been going on for about 10 years — that we know of. Your PC, your cell phone, your smart TV, and all those other gizmos that I don’t have or understand. IIRC, smart TVs and PC webcams can watch, so cover your camera lenses.
Years ago a FReeper posted that he was in his home office with no cell phone or TV in the room. He was speaking to his brother on his landline about an upcoming fishing or hunting trip. Ten minutes later, ads relative to the trip started showing up on his screen.
To make matters worse and add to the suspicion, I watched a very long video about 10 years ago which showed how cameras and mics were put into things like your keyboard, speakers, or mouse or what-have-you. I’m sure that’s not the policy of all companies ...
A few years ago a high school friend and I had a discussion on our IPhones about a guy we knew in high school. We were speculating about whether this guy was on FaceBook. The next time I went on FB, the guy was in the line of ‘people you may know’ on my Timeline. It is really scary how much data is being collected about EVERYONE. And yeah, I know I shouldn’t be on FaceBook but it is a quick connection to relatives in other countries.
HMMMmmm...
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. |