Scared that your phone is spying on you? The truth might be far creepier
If you’ve ever wondered if
your phone is spying on you, you’re not alone. One of the most hotly debated
topics in technology
today is the amount of data that firms surreptitiously gather about us online.
You may well have shared the increasingly common experience of feeling creeped
out by ads for something you recently discussed in a real life conversation or
an online interaction.
This kind of experience has
led to suggestions that tech firms are secretly recording our private conversations via smartphones or other internet-connected devices
such as smart TVs, Amazon Echo or Google Home. Or that they are reading our
private messages even when they are supposedly encrypted, as with Facebook’s
WhatsApp. If this were proven to be true, it would reveal a huge conspiracy
that could do untold damage to the tech industry – which makes it seem somewhat
far-fetched. But recent revelations about the degree to which Facebook users’
data has been shared certainly won’t help to convince people that the big firms
aren’t spying on them.
Yet, there is another, more
compelling reason for the incredibly relevant ads you see. Simply put, tech
firms routinely gather so much data about you in other ways, they already have
an excellent idea what your interests, desires and habits might be. Read More
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