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

[swampratt]

Wife was talking with daughter-in-law about something and next time she tuned he phone on and got on a sight she had adds about the same thing she was discussing with DIL.

I researched that today not doubting it at all.
Found it is probably fact.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/your-smartphone-listening-or-coincidence/

1 more reason i do not want to ever have a cell phone..Not like I am hiding anything.
That is just too much.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

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.

 

[CHenry]

Dont use Google. Its that simple. I use Duckduckgo.com for safe discrete searches.

 

[Free Trapper]

Dont use Google. Its that simple. I use Duckduckgo.com for safe discrete searches.

Been using it for years.....

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Your smart TV listens. Your desk and laptop PCs listen. I'd bet any internet connected device is listening, including the car. You have no privacy in technology.

 

[HeyEng]

"safe discrete searches" doesn't exist. If you are on the internet...you're out there.

 

[mr ed]

And one day the wifi will dictate how many lights you can have on, how warm or cold your house is, how much water you can use, etc.etc.etc. Just as soon as the green new deal passes and AOC becomes dictator.

 

[Hawgman]

It's not just searches. The other day my wife texted me asking which granola bars I wanted. I answered. About an hour later I got pop up ads for the same brand granola bars I'd written her about. Prior to that, I had never seen ads for that product. Lasted about a day, they stopped, haven't appeared again.

 

[HeyEng]

It's not just searches. The other day my wife texted me asking which granola bars I wanted. I answered. About an hour later I got pop up ads for the same brand granola bars I'd written her about. Prior to that, I had never seen ads for that product. Lasted about a day, they stopped, haven't appeared again.

Yep. People don't realize that they pretty much give blanket permissions when the use apps on their phones. Just click-click-click-YAY!!! I can post my boring life to Instacrap now!

 

[n423]

I never use google, never have...