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[Lifehacker] - Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)
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[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is not well documented that our phones are sending keywords to advertisers from audio. Are phones always listening? Yes. How else would they be activated. And anything you tell it after activating it is going to be stored. But outside that, there is no reason for phones to save what you say. Most of that audio is entirely useless to them. If you have the documentation of them sending audio recordings to advertisers, I'd love to see it.