Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people

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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people
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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

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

Right. It only takes one opsec breach.

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

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

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