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I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (simonwillison.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it's being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don't trust plenty of others, and apple still does

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[-] kolorafa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Few hours later on timeline:

https://lemmy.world/post/23832012 (Apple randomly spying using microphone)

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It kind of sounds like that article is about the "hey Siri" feature getting activated accidentally, like if it picks up something that sounds similar to the trigger phrase and starts recording

Which is still a big security/privacy issue, but not exactly the same as if they're just turning the microphone on whenever they want to listen to you and serve you ads

[-] kolorafa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

But most likely they use all of those recordings accidental or not to serve you targeted ads, like Google does.

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