Do our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated.

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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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one of the test participants, who talked repeatedly about Volvo, did report that they were bombarded by advertising for the brand. This person did not even own a car, nor had they searched the Internet to buy a Volvo or any other kind of car.

This has happened to me and my colleagues as well. You have a conversation and within hours, ads for things mentioned in the conversion shows up on web sites as ads.

It was pretty scary the first time, but it has been going on so long that it seems normal now also.

Fuck big tech.

Oh right, they definitely found so super secret spying functionally that armies of security researcher have missed. They must be super hackers or some shit 🤦‍♂️

You know, I used to be very skeptical about this whole thing, like you are. But this is not the first report of this type I see, and I'm not so sure about it being a coincidence anymore