[TriLUG] Who's listening on your phone?

[Tadd Torborg via TriLUG]

Do Google or Microsoft claim they are NOT doing this? 
  Tadd

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Raleigh NC  FM05pv

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> On Dec 9, 2018, at 12:46 PM, mver via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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> Case 1: go to a business about x, chit-chat about a breakfast cereal,
> along with x. Your mobile phone is in your pocket.
> Go home, a day or so later you get ads for breakfast cereal on the phone
> browser.
> Was Google listening? Or somebody else? Did you expect this?
> 
> Case 2: spam phone call alleged to be Microsoft threatening machine shut
> down etc. if you do not talk to them.
> Press 1 to talk, they ring off. Then you find that your phone recording
> app has been turned on.
> Was Google listening? Or somebody else? Did you expect this?
> 
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