Submitted 11 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/
A longstanding conspiracy is the tale of how Facebook is listening in on your conversations, but the way it is actually serving you ads is much more unsettling.
“How did it know what I was talking about”
“It didn’t. It just planted the conversation topic in your head with ads”
doesn’t understand
An earlier version of this article was published in 2019.
While I know this is true, and I had to explain this to other people on the internet and irl multiple times in the last decade, the article doesn’t write about the new TPU chips nowadays appearing in devices. With them full on-device STT will become more and more possible, so the tests mentioned in the article won’t detect eavesdropping, as they won’t need to send sound files to datacenters, only the transcript.
It would have been useful if they wrote about this in this new vector in the article, as TPUs were not that common in 2019.
People worried about “digital eavesdropping” aren’t paranoid. There’s an entire class-action lawsuit based on Apple’s Siri getting caught being activated without the trigger command and data that was captured being sent to third party providers.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What if you don’t have the app and just use it through your browser? Same shit probably.