Your smart device continually listens. How do you feel about that?

[an anarchist]

Is it still a conspiracy theory that your phone is always listening? Genuine question.

It’s pretty obvious now, ain’t it? The ads give it away. You talk about something like a specific product then you get ads for it. Everyone in my life is quite aware of this as it is quite obvious. So in my offline life it is an accepted fact by everyone that your phone is always listening.

Anecdote. I once told a friend this while we were fishing. He freaked out and threw his phone into the canal. I laughed so hard. During that time, I lived completely offline as I didn’t like the idea of my devices always listening to me.

I’ve grown to accept the always listening ear now out of apathetic convenience.

What about you? What do you think about your phones and such always listening in to what you are saying?

 

[an anarchist]

If your doing nothing wrong, you got nothing to worry about?

 

[an anarchist]

Oh, I believe the phones always listen because that’s what I learned when I was into my conspiracy research as a young lad. But, I really think the ads alone give it away now. It’s sometimes nearly instantaneous. I’ll speak of something that I never speak about, and then I’ll immediately get an ad for it.

 

[JustGeorge]

I have a dumb phone.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Oh, I believe the phones always listen because that’s what I learned when I was into my conspiracy research as a young lad. But, I really think the ads alone give it away now. It’s sometimes nearly instantaneous. I’ll speak of something that I never speak about, and then I’ll immediately get an ad for it.

Yeah it's an easy thing to prove now.

 

[an anarchist]

I have a dumb phone.

My family hassled me into being a part of society and connecting back online. I suppose I don’t regret it. A tropical storm once went through my town when I had no technology, so I had no idea it was coming LOL was a surprise for a desert dweller like me that’s for sure.

 

[JustGeorge]

My family hassled me into being a part of society and connecting back online. I suppose I don’t regret it. A tropical storm once went through my town when I had no technology, so I had no idea it was coming LOL was a surprise for a desert dweller like me that’s for sure.

I've got the internet, but I use a laptop.

I didn't have internet until Covid hit. In some ways, its made life better, in others its made it worse.

 

[We Never Know]

If your doing nothing wrong, you got nothing to worry about?

So someone can bug your house and car and you wouldn't care?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I accepted being constantly spied upon years ago. I just don't care. Google knows everything about me. It's not a good thing, though.

 

[an anarchist]

So someone can bug your house and car and you wouldn't care?

When it’s Apple, what can I do? Smart devices are integrated into every aspect of modern first world life.

 

[Quagmire]

As much as I talk to myself I'm surprised the guys in the white coats haven't shown up yet.

 

[JustGeorge]

As much as I talk to myself I'm surprised the guys in the white coats haven't shown up yet.

They just find the conversation too interesting to haul you off.

 

[Soandso]

I accepted being constantly spied upon years ago. I just don't care. Google knows everything about me. It's not a good thing, though.

My sentiments too. It's unfortunate, but both the government and corporations openly monitor people. Pandora's box is opened and it's just the way things are now

Patriot Act - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Murderer jailed for life after Alexa recordings bring him to justice

Daniel White, 36, kicked open his wife Angie White's locked bedroom door and strangled her before cutting her throat with a Stanley knife in October last year.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Balthazzar]

Is it still a conspiracy theory that your phone is always listening? Genuine question.

It’s pretty obvious now, ain’t it? The ads give it away. You talk about something like a specific product then you get ads for it. Everyone in my life is quite aware of this as it is quite obvious. So in my offline life it is an accepted fact by everyone that your phone is always listening.

Anecdote. I once told a friend this while we were fishing. He freaked out and threw his phone into the canal. I laughed so hard. During that time, I lived completely offline as I didn’t like the idea of my devices always listening to me.

I’ve grown to accept the always listening ear now out of apathetic convenience.

What about you? What do you think about your phones and such always listening in to what you are saying?

I call them PA phones. "Patriot Act" began Bush era and phone surveillance was signed in by Obama. Chatter box- Surveillance and issued for that purpose ... an anti-terrorism effort.

The ads are based on an algorithm type software program utilized to provide ads relevant to what you look up on your search engine.

 

[sayak83]

Is it still a conspiracy theory that your phone is always listening? Genuine question.

It’s pretty obvious now, ain’t it? The ads give it away. You talk about something like a specific product then you get ads for it. Everyone in my life is quite aware of this as it is quite obvious. So in my offline life it is an accepted fact by everyone that your phone is always listening.

Anecdote. I once told a friend this while we were fishing. He freaked out and threw his phone into the canal. I laughed so hard. During that time, I lived completely offline as I didn’t like the idea of my devices always listening to me.

I’ve grown to accept the always listening ear now out of apathetic convenience.

What about you? What do you think about your phones and such always listening in to what you are saying?

I have never observed this. I only get targeted ads after I type or use voice search. But not for anything else.
Also I really do not care even if it's true, though I doubt it.

 

[Jimmy]

I don’t think anyone cares

 

[JustGeorge]

I don’t think anyone cares

I know a fair number of people who do.

 

[Spice]

What about you? What do you think about your phones and such always listening in to what you are saying?

Doesn't bother me. I've also been told my robo-vac is a spy!

 

[Spice]

I have never observed this. I only get targeted ads after I type or use voice search. But not for anything else.
Also I really do not care even if it's true, though I doubt it.

But occasionally I will get a message about whether or not my shopping experience at so-in-so this afternoon was satisfactory. That was a bit Spooky the first time it happened.

 

[sayak83]

But occasionally I will get a message about whether or not my shopping experience at so-in-so this afternoon was satisfactory. That was a bit Spooky the first time it happened.

But you shipped correct. They accessed data from the transaction data shared by the store or the financial institutions.