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Do our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated. (english.elpais.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Our mobile devices listen to and collect a significant amount of data on us, even without using our microphones.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This has happened to me and my colleagues as well. You have a conversation and within hours, ads for things mentioned in the conversion shows up on web sites as ads.

It was pretty scary the first time, but it has been going on so long that it seems normal now also.

Fuck big tech.