So is your phone really spying on your conversations?
But those recordings are not how those creepy ads got there.
The truth about your phone’s surveillance on you is, in some ways, actually scarier.
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Whatever you’re interested in, you will also tend to talk about.
For example, let’s say you meet up with a friend at a coffee shop.
Just beforehand, your friend decided to glance at prices for panini makers on Amazon.
No, Google just grabbed a few simple data points and put two-and-two together.
The fact that paninis came up in conversation was just an unsurprising coincidence.
In fact, what ad companies do is far more efficient than snooping on your in-person conversations.
It’s just not feasible, not even for Google.
The problem is that the entire project would be a tremendous waste of time and energy.
Your hot takes and new obsessions are old news for companies like Google.
That movie you saw last week and liked so much you told your coworkers about it?
On top of that, people lie and mislead about their interests in conversation all the time.
Who hasn’t faked interest in a friend’s boring hobby out of politeness?
Any secret eavesdropping lab would quickly have to shut its doors thanks to that low-quality, inaccurate data.
But you know what doesn’t lie?
Unfortunately, not much.
Privacy on the internet is a myth.
There’s no bulletproof solution, though.
Your behavior itself can be fingerprinted, cataloged, andtracked across browsing sessions, weakening many privacy tools.
Related:How to See What Data Google Has on You (and Delete It)
