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

submitted 2 years 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] 4 points 2 years ago

The worst part is that you can get targeted by advertisements recorded by the other partys phone. Once upon a time, before I started blocking spotify ads, the ads I got were always very generic (fast food, spotify premium, espresso house etc.), but one time after visiting my cousin and mentioning that I had a headache, I was bombarded with only ads for pain killers for the full three hour drive home the day after.

Creepy AF.