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Your cell phone listens to what you say

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Ads often take us by surprise by showing something you were talking about before, and this makes us ask that question “Does the cell phone listen to what you say or talk to?”.

According to Dr. Peter Hannay – senior security consultant at cybersecurity firm Asterisk, and former professor and researcher at Edith Cowan University – the short answer is yes, but perhaps in a way that isn't as diabolical as it sounds.

so that your smartphone pay attention and record you, there needs to be a trigger like Hey Siri or Okay Google, for exampleWithout these triggers, there is no recording, with just some general metrics being sent to your service provider. This might not seem like a cause for alarm, but when it comes to apps like Facebook, nobody knows what the triggers are. In fact, there may be thousands.

“From time to time, snippets of audio come back to the servers [from other apps like Facebook], but there's no official understanding of what the triggers are,” explains Peter. “Whether it's time, place, or using certain functions, [applications] are certainly getting these mic permissions and using them periodically. All internal parts of apps send this data in encrypted form, so it's very difficult to define the exact trigger.”

He goes on to explain that apps like Facebook or the Instagram can have thousands of triggers. A common conversation with a friend about needing a new pair of jeans can be enough to turn it on. Although the keyword here is “could”, because even though technology is present, companies like Facebook vehemently deny listening to our conversations.

In the video below I talk a little about it:

In the elaboration of this matter we tested and we can prove that some subjects are really captured and transformed into advertisements, do the test at home.

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