Cellphone Listening S2 Ep.39 feat. Gary
Have you ever mentioned a product in conversation, only to see an ad for it a few minutes later? Coincidence... or is your phone listening? In this thought-provoking episode of That's Effin Weird, host Stevenson dives into one of the internet's most enduring modern conspiracies: the belief that our smartphones are secretly recording our conversations to serve targeted advertisements.
We'll explore why so many people are convinced their devices are eavesdropping, what privacy experts and technology companies say about microphone access, and how apps collect enormous amounts of data—even…
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