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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 23 points 10 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 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not justification, it's about understanding the semantics of what's technically happening.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago

So many people have trouble telling the difference between "that was fine" and "that's not what happened". It's very disappointing.

[–] sennish@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Right. It only takes one opsec breach.