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39-year-old Chartered Accountant, Abdul Shaheen, first felt that something was wrong when he started seeing AC ads on Facebook and Instagram during the monsoons. It was highly illogical for any company to be spending money on ads for an AC when it was not the season for it not would it make any sense to buy one at the height of the monsoons. It was even more strange that he was having a chat with his friends about how it would be smart to buy the AC before the onset of the Chennai summer rather than during it.
This was followed by similar incidents like seeing ads for a new TV when he talked to the local repair guy about fixing the audio output on his current TV, ads for sports equipment when he was talking to his family about subscribing to a family membership at the local gym and even ads for enhancing his penis size after a particularly raunchy lovemaking session.
Now Abdul isn’t the only one who has been facing this. We have had multiple cases worldwide where companies like Facebook, Apple and Google have had to come out in court and provide statements that they were not listening in on people. Despite this, there have been cases where products like Apple’s Siri, Google’s Ok Google and Amazon’s Alexa have been caught recording conversations happening in peoples homes.
The blame cannot be fully placed on the companies or app developers either. They are providing a free service which we use and in return, they take the liberty of running ads to us by using our behaviour on mobile or the internet to accurately predict what kind of ads we might be interested in. This is the main, or in many cases, the only source of income for these companies and we gladly sign off our right to privacy when we agree to the terms and conditions without reading them.
All phones today come with the option of individually providing access to various apps without having to provide blanket access to everyone. The biggest mistake we all do is clicking yes to all the permissions that a newly downloaded app asks for without actually thinking why it needs that. For example, ever wondered why that new football game you downloaded needs access to your phone calls?
Read the full article at: http://thedailyvanilla.com/2021/09/06/man-learns-sign-language-suspecting-his-mobile-phone-is-listening-to-everything-he-says/
This was followed by similar incidents like seeing ads for a new TV when he talked to the local repair guy about fixing the audio output on his current TV, ads for sports equipment when he was talking to his family about subscribing to a family membership at the local gym and even ads for enhancing his penis size after a particularly raunchy lovemaking session.
Now Abdul isn’t the only one who has been facing this. We have had multiple cases worldwide where companies like Facebook, Apple and Google have had to come out in court and provide statements that they were not listening in on people. Despite this, there have been cases where products like Apple’s Siri, Google’s Ok Google and Amazon’s Alexa have been caught recording conversations happening in peoples homes.
The blame cannot be fully placed on the companies or app developers either. They are providing a free service which we use and in return, they take the liberty of running ads to us by using our behaviour on mobile or the internet to accurately predict what kind of ads we might be interested in. This is the main, or in many cases, the only source of income for these companies and we gladly sign off our right to privacy when we agree to the terms and conditions without reading them.
All phones today come with the option of individually providing access to various apps without having to provide blanket access to everyone. The biggest mistake we all do is clicking yes to all the permissions that a newly downloaded app asks for without actually thinking why it needs that. For example, ever wondered why that new football game you downloaded needs access to your phone calls?
Read the full article at: http://thedailyvanilla.com/2021/09/06/man-learns-sign-language-suspecting-his-mobile-phone-is-listening-to-everything-he-says/
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By NITTEN NAIR39-year-old Chartered Accountant, Abdul Shaheen, first felt that something was wrong when he started seeing AC ads on Facebook and Instagram during the monsoons. It was highly illogical for any company to be spending money on ads for an AC when it was not the season for it not would it make any sense to buy one at the height of the monsoons. It was even more strange that he was having a chat with his friends about how it would be smart to buy the AC before the onset of the Chennai summer rather than during it.
This was followed by similar incidents like seeing ads for a new TV when he talked to the local repair guy about fixing the audio output on his current TV, ads for sports equipment when he was talking to his family about subscribing to a family membership at the local gym and even ads for enhancing his penis size after a particularly raunchy lovemaking session.
Now Abdul isn’t the only one who has been facing this. We have had multiple cases worldwide where companies like Facebook, Apple and Google have had to come out in court and provide statements that they were not listening in on people. Despite this, there have been cases where products like Apple’s Siri, Google’s Ok Google and Amazon’s Alexa have been caught recording conversations happening in peoples homes.
The blame cannot be fully placed on the companies or app developers either. They are providing a free service which we use and in return, they take the liberty of running ads to us by using our behaviour on mobile or the internet to accurately predict what kind of ads we might be interested in. This is the main, or in many cases, the only source of income for these companies and we gladly sign off our right to privacy when we agree to the terms and conditions without reading them.
All phones today come with the option of individually providing access to various apps without having to provide blanket access to everyone. The biggest mistake we all do is clicking yes to all the permissions that a newly downloaded app asks for without actually thinking why it needs that. For example, ever wondered why that new football game you downloaded needs access to your phone calls?
Read the full article at: http://thedailyvanilla.com/2021/09/06/man-learns-sign-language-suspecting-his-mobile-phone-is-listening-to-everything-he-says/
This was followed by similar incidents like seeing ads for a new TV when he talked to the local repair guy about fixing the audio output on his current TV, ads for sports equipment when he was talking to his family about subscribing to a family membership at the local gym and even ads for enhancing his penis size after a particularly raunchy lovemaking session.
Now Abdul isn’t the only one who has been facing this. We have had multiple cases worldwide where companies like Facebook, Apple and Google have had to come out in court and provide statements that they were not listening in on people. Despite this, there have been cases where products like Apple’s Siri, Google’s Ok Google and Amazon’s Alexa have been caught recording conversations happening in peoples homes.
The blame cannot be fully placed on the companies or app developers either. They are providing a free service which we use and in return, they take the liberty of running ads to us by using our behaviour on mobile or the internet to accurately predict what kind of ads we might be interested in. This is the main, or in many cases, the only source of income for these companies and we gladly sign off our right to privacy when we agree to the terms and conditions without reading them.
All phones today come with the option of individually providing access to various apps without having to provide blanket access to everyone. The biggest mistake we all do is clicking yes to all the permissions that a newly downloaded app asks for without actually thinking why it needs that. For example, ever wondered why that new football game you downloaded needs access to your phone calls?
Read the full article at: http://thedailyvanilla.com/2021/09/06/man-learns-sign-language-suspecting-his-mobile-phone-is-listening-to-everything-he-says/