My girlfriend's phone started giving her ads for police promotion study guides. I've only talked with her about it briefly and never searched anything online. Now she's constantly inundated with them. I don't like it one bit this technology is always listening

Wife has a cell phone from Straight Talk she has had 100s of junk calls since she went with them it's a never ending issue a few every day. They must sell the heck out of their user list.

dude.. Yes! That is the creepiest stuff. It's even creepier when I'm only thinking about it...

Use the tor browser. https://www.torproject.org

Use duckduckgo.com no adds.

I've noticed if we talk about something we are interested in we start seeing ads

It’s not just the electronic devices that are tracking you. Every time you use your store discount card(MVP or VIC card) the store is tracking your purchases. Case in point; before we had a child(10 years ago) my wife was on birth control and had a 28 day cycle like clockwork. Eagerly month the week before her cycle was due I would get a coupon for tampons. Every time. It never failed. In fact that’s what made me think something wasn’t t right when that coupon came out and I did not have to buy tampons that month. That’s how I knew we were due for a family expansion.

Another thing. Those of you with Apple devices you can turn off the auto listening setting but a lot of time whe. Your device updates it will turn it back on. You have to go back into settings and manually turn it off each time you update. At least I have to.

Your phone is listening to everything you say and passing the information along to google. If you have one of those devices in your home that you just talk into, it's listening to all conversations and keeping track of everything you say. Your smartphone is tracking everywhere you go and can link it to any address. Lets say you pull into a McDonalds drive through, now it knows you like McDonalds and can sell that info to McDonalds for advertising purposes. (And burger king and Arbys, etc.)

A guy I know told me that his son who's a senior in high school was talking on the phone with a friend and asked him if he'd ever looked into a particular college. Within an hour, both of them had ads from that college on their facebook feeds. If you are connected, you can't get away from it.

Well ,in your case it the neighbors talking behind your back

Every time you swipe your card for a purchase, any time you walk into a store or public location, if you have a vehicle built in the last 10 years, XM Radio and or OnStar installed in a car, cell phones, home devices, anything built by Nest, Amazon, Google, if you have internet to your home. You can not move in an urban environment under normal social conditions in this day and age, and not be located with in minutes. Facial recognition software use is on the rise. Every time you pass a toll booth, and other random check points on highways, your plate numbers are taken in. Very few people in this country today are NOT tracked or can not be located in under 24 hours.

I have a mike attached to this machine. I often voice chat to a friend in New Zealand. We chat through a Russian run thing. " Telegram ". Said not to be associated with any of the big boys set ups.

One time, I ask is she gets a certain game show, over there. Mention how the host we get with it is great. Say his name. Down the mike.

Next day, I go into YouTube. Bang! There's a " Recommendation " for that game show. That hosts greatest moments.

Part of me died that day.

there was a story about Target , they have a targeted marketing algorythm , when you start buying related products it guesses your next product and sends you advertisements for it.

this story is probably 5 years old , 16 year old lives with her dad , she shops at target , starts getting adds for baby stuff , her dad gets mad at target for sending her maternity adds , she is only 16!

a few weeks later she has missed to many periods to not get concerned and sees the doctor , yup she was pregnant no more than 2-3 weeks when Target stated sending her baby adds.

unscented lotion and a few other personal car products generally unscented are part of the tip off in the algorithm. as the hormones start to wind up into overdrive of first pregnacy , smells become too much for many women.


Hey WIre Tap! , do you have a recipe for pancakes ?

There's more than one. They're spread out in a lot of places all across the country.

The ridiculous part is the SOB's make you sign an NDA to protect THEIR privacy.

How's that for irony?

Mike

the wife was listening to an interviewer with Edward Snowden , the wiki leaks guy , he has a cell phone but the very first thing he does is open it up , remove the microphone and disable the cameras. when he wants to talk on the phone he plugs in a set of ear buds with a mic.


are you paranoid enough?

Recently filmed a pair of bucks fighting 5-600 yards away with an I phone and a spotting scope.

When you play the video back you can clearly hear the antlers hitting each other even just the little ticks.

You absolutely couldn't hear anything from those antlers with the human ear in that situation, very shocking.

Every time you pass a Ditigal billboard on the highway your phone just got read..........pass it every day and you get the local adds