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So it turns out your phone is eavesdropping on you

Iain

I saw an article today that confirmed what I have suspected for years now - mobile phones have been monitoring us and using the info to sell to advertisers:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4rvr495rgo

Apple has agreed to pay $95m (£77m) to settle a court case alleging some of its devices were listening to people without their permission.

The tech giant was accused of eavesdropping on its customers through its virtual assistant Siri.

I remember testing this about 5 years ago to prove it to my wife as she was skeptical - I kept adding into our conversatons that we should got to Disneyland (I warned her I would do this as a test as it is somewhere we have no interest in going to) and sure enough we started to get adverts appearing after a week about the park.

I suspect the other big players (Microsoft, Google etc) are also up to this but are much better at hiding it or have added wording in their Terms and Conditions to allow it.

It is more than a little concerning.

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  • The way this works is that a whole BUNCH of people al who play hard life games now have aceess to a great deal of information about US, (largely with our blessing or co-operation) but we still know nothing about THEM.

    It's the essential assymetry adn the depth of the whole thing I don't like.

    IF KIer goes full pol pot and decides to wipe out Autists, or people who drive VW passats or whatever goup they select for making an example of to keep the rest cowed, that group will have no where to hide. 

    If governement was a bit more interested in protecting children or even the crimes that affect US, MAYBE the endless snooping could be good, but it won't be used for high moral purposes, it'll be used to sell us timeshares and monitor us for lucrative infringements of "law" etc...

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  • The way this works is that a whole BUNCH of people al who play hard life games now have aceess to a great deal of information about US, (largely with our blessing or co-operation) but we still know nothing about THEM.

    It's the essential assymetry adn the depth of the whole thing I don't like.

    IF KIer goes full pol pot and decides to wipe out Autists, or people who drive VW passats or whatever goup they select for making an example of to keep the rest cowed, that group will have no where to hide. 

    If governement was a bit more interested in protecting children or even the crimes that affect US, MAYBE the endless snooping could be good, but it won't be used for high moral purposes, it'll be used to sell us timeshares and monitor us for lucrative infringements of "law" etc...

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