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Is your phone secretly listening to you? Here's an easy way to find out (www.pcworld.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Weak article

But to rescue the topic: yes, technically it could spy you and upload hashes of each 5 seconds of your mic into a datastore for recognition. But why do it in such a long and pricy way when the ads suppliers (one fo them being google) have all your demographics they need? And sometimes even know if a click on an ad banner resulted in a purchase. And that way don't have to recognize if that was you talking, someone on the street or their own ad

Read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit

Even using anonymized discount loyalty cards fuels the recognition which ad to push your way