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At work you have the same IP. Your coworker may have googled what he was taking about. This is a much easier explaination than a constant mic monitoring for arb
by thealistra 5y ago
At work you have the same IP. Your coworker may have googled what he was taking about. This is a much easier explaination than a constant mic monitoring for arbitrary phrases
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoThere are a lot of people at this company, and my news feed doesn't diverge enough to account for all of their varied google searches.
- zepto 5y agoNo, but it would be easy to tell that you associate with your co-worked by correlating Bluetooth beacons, which many apps do for exactly this purpose.
- Yeri 5y agoMore realistically, your co-worker googled it on their phone. They also email/chat/sms/call you once in a while, so they know you're connected. Now, it's only logical that you may share certain interests, so why not show ads for things they bought/googled for to their contacts?
- withinboredom 5y agoDon’t people have data caps where they’d notice if a ridiculous amount of audio was sent to a server?
- dont__panic 5y agoIf you did all of the analysis on device, even quite cheaply, you could just transcribe key words and phrases into a text file and upload that. That would only be a few kilobytes of data tops per day of unique words and phrases, I should think. And if you've ever tried to monitor data usage on an Android phone, you'll know that the monolith of Google Play Services phones home all the time with all kinds of pings and datapoints, so it wouldn't be hard at all to upload that data.