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jwhop
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posted June 07, 2018 12:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia
Here's how I got to bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery.
Sam Nichols
Jun 4 2018

A couple years ago, something strange happened. A friend and I were sitting at a bar, iPhones in pockets, discussing our recent trips in Japan and how we’d like to go back. The very next day, we both received pop-up ads on Facebook about cheap return flights to Tokyo. It seemed like just a spooky coincidence, but then everyone seems to have a story about their smartphone listening to them. So is this just paranoia, or are our smartphones actually listening?

According to Dr. Peter Hannay—The senior security consultant for cybersecurity firm Asterisk, and former lecturer and researcher at Edith Cowan University—the short answer is yes, but perhaps in a way that's not as diabolical as it sounds.

For your smartphone to actually pay attention and record your conversation, there needs to be a trigger, such as when you say “hey Siri” or “okay Google.” In the absence of these triggers, any data you provide is only processed within your own phone. This might not seem a cause for alarm, but any third party applications you have on your phone—like Facebook for example—still have access to this “non-triggered” data. And whether or not they use this data is really up to them....
http://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia

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Catalina
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posted June 08, 2018 02:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
But Edward Snowden.. a traitor, right? Where have you been? Actially its more likely they got those ads because of those trips they took.. and booked ... with their phones

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nordicsoul
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posted June 10, 2018 07:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for nordicsoul     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
how much are they paying you to troll around defending them

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nordicsoul
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posted June 10, 2018 07:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for nordicsoul     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
yes, it all the fault of the brainless users.. no fault at all in the companies... way to go troll

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juniperb
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posted June 10, 2018 02:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Troll? I see an opinion expressed but trolling is stretching it .

I agree the owner data used is related to the phone "listening" in... and why partly I don`t own a smart phone.

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teasel
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posted June 10, 2018 11:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by nordicsoul:
how much are they paying you to troll around defending them

She is not a troll.

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