The question of whether our smartphones are always listening to us is cropping up on online forums and Twitter almost daily, and most users have had the experience of talking about something then, soon after that, seeing online ads about that specific thing.
Have you ever had the experience of talking about something, then seeing an online ad related to that real-world conversation, as if your phone is ‘listening’?
— Tom Whitwell (@TomWhitwell) September 7, 2019
But are the phones (or apps) actually “listening”? Could it simply be that ad-serving companies have access to too much data about us and our online and offline behaviour (and that of our nearest and dearest), allowing them to predict what we might want or need? Or is our mind playing tricks on ..
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