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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
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[–] elucubra@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My sister snd I had a conversation in a terrace about flower seeds to gift my mother. Neither has google assitant or any other voice search app acrivated. We both started getting seed ads. Pretty damning

[–] onion@feddit.de 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you know your sister didn't search for seeds?

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

It’s rather Orwellian to me that this kind of logic counts as justification.

[–] sennish@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

Right. It only takes one opsec breach.