I know Phones dont listen but....
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Very valid point! Clearly people cheating!
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I hadnt heard of this if so
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Yes I'm aware they have the feature but as others stated, listening 24/7 would require enormous levels of compute power that even google wouldnt see as economical
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What's scary is that tracking tech is so good they don't even need to listen to you to know what you've been talking/thinking about.
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A whistleblower from apple showed that they do listen and have whole lawyer client conversations were recorded at apple. I dont know if that was what the commenter before was hinting at.
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Your phone listens for the phrase "Hey Google" and uses little processing power to do so. If it was listening to everything and processing that information, your battery would die incredibly fast. We're talking charging your phone multiple times a day even if you weren't using it for anything else.
As someone else mentioned in another commend, being near Spanish speakers' phones, Bluetooth/Wifi tracking are what Google is using to track you. They search Google in Spanish, Google can tell you spend time with them, Google thinks you speak Spanish.
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I'm an Android/Google/Pixel person. I have a Google Home speaker at work (self-employed barber/stylist) and was playing old classic country music a few weeks ago. My client mentioned that her husband's favorite artist is Porter Wagoner and his favorite song is Cold Hard Facts Of Life. Well, guess what the very next song was? And now, ever since then, I've been inundated with that song. It plays constantly.
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Iirc correctly maybe it wasn’t picked up on a mic but if your friends all googled it after, it’s likely their devices and accounts were already associated with you, so online services will think maybe you’d bet interested in it too.
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Or just looking up the answer afterwards.
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Your fellow competitors did not neccesarily perform the search when they were at the pub. It could be a the john when they got home. Your dataprofile is still tied to them right now.
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If you think your Apple phone isn't listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I'd like to sell you in Montana.
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Is this what you're talking about? https://kkc.com/blog/apple-whistleblower-details-intimate-data-spying-profiling-in-new-interviews/
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Your phone listens for the phrase “Hey Google” and uses little processing power to do so.
I need some metrics on this. It must be recording at least some things above a certain volume threshold in order to process them.
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I am convinced they do listen. I have had 2 instances og this. Once I was talking with my mom about some new bedsheets and covers. She later went to the store and sent me a picture to see if it's okay. I later got an add for the exact same bedsheets and covers.
Had another similar thing when I got an add for some stuff we were just talking about with some people. Cannot remember what specifically.
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Again, not my device personally
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Exactly. Phones have dedicated hardware that stores the trigger word and wakes up the OS when it detects it.
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I mean the microphone is active, so it's listening, but it's not recording/saving/processing anything until it hears the trigger phrase.
The truth is they really don't need to. They track you in so many other ways that actually recording you would be pointless AND risky. While most people don't quite grasp digital privacy and Google can get away with a lot because of it, they do understand actual eavesdropping and probably wouldn't stand all their private moments being recorded.
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Exactly. I only read about it in combination with the court case but yes, this is the underlying situation iirc.
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It would be pretty easy to test, too.
Get a pre-paid phone. Set up a brand-new Google or Apple account. Activate phone using the new account. Put it through its paces for a few hours and note the ads you get.
Shoot the shit with your friends and family with the phone on the table for a few hours.
Put the phone through its paces again and note the ads you get.
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AI acceleration ASICs are already in a lot of hardware these days. It doesn't take a whole lot anymore for it to be both cheap and feasible.
