This has freaked me out

[Jono8]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns

Tech companies want to control every aspect of what we do, for profit. A bold, important book identifies our new era of capitalism

www.theguardian.com

Read this book and feel even worse!

 

[bloodiedathame]

All I do is talk about women's lingerie but I don't get any ads. Disappointing.

 

[Pho]

If you're all still not sure then if you have an Android you can use the Privacy Dashboard (https://support.google.com/android/answer/13530434?hl=en-GB) or if you have an iPhone you can use the App Privacy Report (https://www.apple.com/uk/privacy/control/) to see which apps have accessed used your mic etc recently.

Both Google and Apple really lock down sensitive permissions access. It's very hard to sneakily access it in the background as a developer.

 

[Rroff]

I've had this happen with 1-2 apps installed with microphone permissions allowed such as the Netflix app - coincidence? I don't normally get it happening, so it is quite noticeable when it does. It seems to trigger on brand names.

Stock Android without using any voice assistant features doesn't appear to do it.

 

[Removed User 345456]

Illuminati

 

[arknor]

It's possible to track a user over multiple devices based on mouse inputs etc.

No idea if cookies are that sophisticated though

 

[adidan]

All I do is talk about women's lingerie but I don't get any ads. Disappointing.

I'm always getting ads for busty Ukrainian women in my local area.

I must talk in my sleep.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

I'm always getting ads for busty Ukrainian women in my local area.

I must talk in my sleep.

Just doing my part for the war effort

 

[Thekwango]

I’m just grateful someone or something listens to me in my house. The wife and kids certainly don’t.

 

[bainbridge]

@SexyGreyFox Tbh you should be more concerned with stuff that you look into on your private devices showing up on your work machine!

You are being monitored.

 

[dave28]

emails, social media accounts, mobile phone numbers, your address and all your details probably link somehow between work and personal life.

it looks like they found you anyway and that tells me there was some link present that some type of AI or programme could ID you from your activities in work.

 

[BUDFORCE]

@SexyGreyFox Tbh you should be more concerned with stuff that you look into on your private devices showing up on your work machine!

You are being monitored.

I don't think the NHS would be too bothered about knitting and crochet.

 

[ianh]

 

[Vanquish-Storm]

It's probably because you've logged into your personal google account and your NHS google account using the same machine at some point. Or maybe you've logged into facebook at work once. Now google and/or facebook know the two accounts are linked in some way. So any cookies on one machine may be relevant to the other machine.

Do NHS use Google?

 

[Scuzi]

So a while ago I was expressing to my wife how delightful it would be to see a video where CyclingMikey encounters a car full of Albanian mafia thugs and we get a FPV of him getting his skull caved in and pelvis smashed.

12 seconds later my front door gets kicked in and the thought police bundle me into the back of a Crown Vic. I was born with 3 warrants.

 

[Vexr]

 

[G-MAN2004]

Nitro are likely sharing your details with third parties. They've got your info from signing up and also have your location from your IP address. That, or they have advertising trackers on the site.

Have a look at their privacy policy and there will probably be something in there about sharing your data.

 

[Scania]

I often talk about winning the lottery, unfortunately, Faceache hasn't come riding to the rescue despite it's listening...

 

[Mysterae_]

Reminds me of this!

 

[BUDFORCE]

Ok, if you type whiskey into Google, what is the next word that auto populates in the search bar?