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Is your smartphone really listening to you?

2022-10-04T09:50:44.477Z


An advertisement targets you particularly well after having mentioned a product orally. Coincidence? Not really, but it's not because


It all starts with the impression that an innocuous conversation has materialized on your device in advertising with a purchase suggestion.

If you have the feeling that eavesdroppers have recorded your idea of ​​a trip or the brand of your next shoes, you are not alone and you are not paranoid either.

Since the emergence of smartphones and 4G mobile internet networks a decade ago, heavy suspicions of espionage have weighed on these devices.

Or more precisely on the applications installed on it - in particular social networks - which quite easily obtain authorization to use the microphone.

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Source: leparis

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