These Academics Spent the Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening to You

ronjor · Jul 3, 2018

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It’s the smartphone conspiracy theory that just won’t go away: Many, many people are convinced that their phones are listening to their conversations to target them with ads.
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Minimalist · Jul 3, 2018

The strange practice they started to see was that screenshots and video recordings of what people were doing in apps were being sent to third party domains. For example, when one of the phones used an app from GoPuff, a delivery start-up for people who have sudden cravings for junk food, the interaction with the app was recorded and sent to a domain affiliated with Appsee, a mobile analytics company. The video included a screen where you could enter personal information—in this case, their zip code.
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Just great. I wonder if that company makes more money from their delivery business or from data sold to 3rd party?

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