Is your phone secretly listening to your conversations with friends or family?
Is your phone secretly listening to your conversations with friends or family? Many mobile users have had a very ‘strange and scary’ experience – when you open a social media account and within moments of chatting with a friend about a specific topic, an ad for the exact same topic appears. This has raised a big question among the general public: is our phone secretly listening to what we say? Many users have shared such experiences. “Sometimes I’ll be chatting with my friends and 30 minutes later I’ll be on TikTok and an ad for the exact same topic appears,” said one woman. Another person said that after talking about her plans to visit New York, her Instagram reels were filled with New York content for weeks. Similarly, another woman shared that she opened the app shortly after talking about a particular dish and then saw an ad for the exact same food. What do the experts say? According to Ari Paparo , a veteran advertising consultant and author, phones are not passively listen...