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I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (simonwillison.net)
submitted 6 days ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it's being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don't trust plenty of others, and apple still does

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

The scary thought here isn't that they're actively listening in.

It's that they know enough about you to know that something will be of interest to you before you even realise it yourself...