Your Phone Is Listening And It's Not Paranoia

[edpc]

A couple years ago, something strange happened. A friend and I were sitting at a bar, iPhones in pockets, discussing our recent trips in Japan and how we’d like to go back. The very next day, we both received pop-up ads on Facebook about cheap return flights to Tokyo. It seemed like just a spooky coincidence, but then everyone seems to have a story about their smartphone listening to them. So is this just paranoia, or are our smartphones actually listening?

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia

[Oceander]

The new EU privacy law that just came into effect - the GDPR - should help to squelch some of this.