August 16, 2020

Why We Think Our Phones Are Secretly Listening to Us | by Simon Pitt | Aug, 2020 | OneZero →

conspiracy theories
big data
data privacy
faang
ethics

You know that creepy feeling when you see a Facebook ad about a conversation you just had in real life? How it makes you think that your phone is listening to every conversation and using it for retargeting?

Simon Pitt explains why that is unlikely (we're saved by physics!) and how we still end up believing it's true.