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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My sister snd I had a conversation in a terrace about flower seeds to gift my mother. Neither has google assitant or any other voice search app acrivated. We both started getting seed ads. Pretty damning

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you know your sister didn't search for seeds?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Right. It only takes one opsec breach.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s rather Orwellian to me that this kind of logic counts as justification.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not justification, it's about understanding the semantics of what's technically happening.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

So many people have trouble telling the difference between "that was fine" and "that's not what happened". It's very disappointing.