Your cell phone is listening to you when it is OFF!

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Snattlerake

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Maybe, but I don't ever google search. Ya, use YT. I meant as a search engine. Never knowingly. Their services but not if I can help it.
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
 

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Maybe, but I don't ever google search. Ya, use YT. I meant as a search engine. Never knowingly. Their services but not if I can help it.
You'd be surprised how many Web sites use Google for the back-end search provider for the search boxes on their sites, and Google Analytics are on all kinds of Web sites. Chrome is Google, as is Android, and they're a yuuuuge online advertising company. Even if you don't go to Google to search, they still know a hell of a lot about you.
 

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I totally believe it listens to you. Wife and I were talking about how long it takes to get to xxxxx the other day, so I pulled up google maps on my phone and the first suggestion in the file was the place we were thinking about and discussing.
Big Brother is watching.
 

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As an aside, you cannot tell me the millions of Chinese made high end security cameras that secure our military bases, ships, top secret installations, missile silos, etc. do not have a back door built in to them. All they would have to do is know the MAC address of each camera and connect to it.
 

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I dont think my nokia X2 non smart phone listens to me.

Weird story, awhile back me and a coworker were talking about WWII and concentration camps and Hans Kammler, my coworkers phone popped it up was world holocaust remembrance day. Weird
 

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The is a lot of discussion about voice activated devices listening and sharing information and privacy issues.

I’ve also noticed that when I look search for something on a website, that the same item frequently shows up on Facebook.
That is because of the sight that you went to uses cookies.
 

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