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Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing (newatlas.com)
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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

They are absolutely listening, I had a family member start getting credit card offers for an unborn baby that wasn't even named officially yet.

[–] unskilled5117@feddit.org 7 points 13 hours ago

Why would that need listening? I imagine if one is pregnant you are searching for lots of information online: symptoms, physicians, due date etc.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to listen to you when it already controls what you talk about.

[–] Clairvoidance@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yep, if they can control thought patterns, they can control what you do, and then they can control what you want

The end result being "well why wouldn't I want ads that show me personalized ads? I'm likely to give more of a shit", not knowing that you're signing yourself up for potentially even limiting your nuances Surveillance Capitalism style

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 17 points 17 hours ago

So you may adamantly claim Facebook must have listened in on your private conversation yesterday about a friend’s wedding and then served you an ad for tailored wedding suits because you have not googled anything wedding-related in years. But there are scores of other data points the system has on you to determine what you should see at any given point. Not only does the system know exactly where you are at every moment, it knows who your friends are, what they are interested in, and who you are spending time with. It can track you across all your devices, log call and text metadata on Android phones, and even watch you write something that you end up deleting and never actually send.